2.2.9 spase://SMWG/Observatory/SAC-C SAC-C Project Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas-C Scientific Application Satellite-C Oersted-2 NSSDC ID: 2000-075B 2019-05-05T12:34:56Z SAC-C is an International (Argentina plus USA, France, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil) satellite that was launched by a Delta 2 rocket at 13:24 UT from Vandenberg AFB. Its mission is to remotely-sense vegetation, wetlands, and ecosystem in four wavelength bands covering 0.4-1.75 microns, with a spatial resolution of 1 km. The orbital planes of SAC-C, EO 1, Landsat 7 (1999-020A), and Terra (1999-068A) are closely coplanar, with a given site being successively visited by each spacecraft within an hour of each other. SAC-C's periapsis is 682 km, its apoapsis is 701 km, it's orbital period is about 99 min, and the inclination of the orbit is 98.2 degrees. Also on-board, that is relevant to the VMO, is a helium magnetometer. Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States); Danish Space Research Institute (Denmark); National Commission of Space Activities (CONAE) (Argentina); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil (Brazil); Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy); spase://SMWG/Person/UNKNOWN ProjectScientist NSSDC's Master Catalog https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2000-075B Information about the SAC-C mission EN The SAC-C Project https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/sac-c Information about the SAC-C project EN Earth.NearSurface 2001-02-01T00:00:00 2013-08-13T23:59:59