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TAURUS
LAUNCHES MULTI-SPECTRAL THERMAL IMAGER (MTI) SATELLITE
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The U.S. Department of
Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite was placed
into low Earth orbit March 12 by an Orbital Sciences Taurus
rocket. Liftoff occurred at 0929 UTC (01:29 PST) from pad 576-East
at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. MTI is designed to
spend three years in space testing new imaging technologies that
might be used by future spy satellites. The 610 kg (1345 lbm) satellite carries a
sophisticated telescope that collects day and night images of the
Earth in 15 spectral bands ranging from the visible to long-wave
infrared. If the techniques work, they could detect facilities on
Earth suspected of producing nuclear or chemical weapons of mass
destruction. The satellite was designed and built by a government
and industry team led by Sandia National Laboratories, including
the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ball Aerospace, Raytheon, and
TRW. MTI will fly in
a 555 km (360 nmi) circular sun-synchronous orbit inclined at 97
degrees to earth's equator.
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