Delta II | NOAA 18
United States Air Force · Delta II 7320-10C · Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
United States Air Force's 1,068th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 4,712th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: May 20, 10:22 – May 20, 10:22 UTC
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NOAA 18
NOAA-18, known before launch as NOAA-N, is a weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. NOAA-N (18) was launched on May 20, 2005, into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 854 km above the Earth, with an orbital period of 102 minutes. It hosts the AMSU-A, MHS, AVHRR, Space Environment Monitor SEM/2 instrument and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) instruments, as well as the SBUV/2 ozone-monitoring instrument. It is the first NOAA POES satellite to use MHS in place of AMSU-B. NOAA-18 also hosts Cospas-Sarsat payloads.
Earth Science · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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