CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- MSX
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Full Name
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Midcourse Space Experiment
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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DoD (USA)
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Launch Date
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24 Apr 1996
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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01 Jul 2008
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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103 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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99.4 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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907 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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The primary objectives of MSX are to detect, acquire and track targets and to discriminate lethal from nonlethal objects (detailed characterization and modeling of target objects and their associated phenomenology of the terrestrial, Earth-limb, and celestial backgrounds). The information gathered by the MSX spacecraft will help fill significant spatial, spectral, and temporal gaps that currently exist in space environment models. Another driving factor in the MSX Program is sensor and spacecraft technology improvement. The latest technology is used to provide the most up-to-date phenomenological information and to serve as a new-technology demonstrator.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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