QuickTOMS

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General

Designation	n/a
Launch date	21 Sep 2001
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	n/a (planned: 800 km, sun-synchronous (10:30 AM))
Inclination	n/a
Period	n/a
Launch vehicle	Taurus #6

Mission operated by NASA to study ozone. The instrument was to fly on a Meteor 3M satellite but as the mission was cancelled, NASA ordered this little satellite. Worth $23 million including the launch.

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End of life

Out of service	21 Sep 2001
Cause	launch failure
Decay	21 Sep 2001

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External resources

http://quiktoms.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	OSC
Platform	Microstar
Mass at launch	166.1 kg
Mass in orbit
Payload pass	35 kg
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power	EOL: 228 W
Design lifetime	5 years (3 years for the payload)

Will carry a Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS-5)

Communication in S-band: 2 kbps uplink & 500 kbps uplink

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