Satellite
Terra
NASA’s flagship Earth-observation satellite, launched in 1999: more than two decades of daily images of clouds, fires, ice and vegetation, used in thousands of climate studies.
- Catalogue name
- TERRA
- NORAD ID
- 25994
- Owner
- United States
- Launched
- December 18, 1999
- Altitude (perigee – apogee)
- 695 – 698 km
- Orbital period
- 98.6 min
- Inclination
- 97.9°