NASA will launch the first in its series of New Millennium Programme Earth-orbiting missions, EO-1, aboard a Boeing Delta II from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 18 November.
EO-1 is an advanced land-imaging mission that will demonstrate new instruments and spacecraft systems. NASA-Argentine satellite SAC-C will also fly on the Delta.
NASA initiated the New Millennium Programme in 1996 to identify, develop and flight-validate key instrument and spacecraft technologies that can enable new or more cost-effective approaches to conducting science missions.
The Argentine Commission of Space Activities' SAC craft is designed to study the structure and dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere, ionosphere and geomagnetic field and will also measure space radiation in the environment and its influence on advanced electronic components.
Source: Flight International