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Launched in 1999
Date Spacecraft Launcher Country/Remarks Best Resolution Status
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27 January 1999 ROCSAT/OCI Athena 1 Taiwan, Ocean Color 800 m LAUNCHED a.k.a. Formosat-1
26 Feb 1999 SunSat Delta 2 South Africa+Korea, with Ørsted and ARGOS 10 to 15 m LAUNCHED
2 April 1999 INSAT 2E Ariane 4 India, Meteo 2 km LAUNCHED
15 April 1999 Landsat 7 Delta 2 USA, NOAA 15 m LAUNCHED
21 April 1999 UoSAT-12 Dnepr UK 8 m PAN, 35 m MS LAUNCHED
27 April 1999 Ikonos-1 Athena 2 USA commercial(CRSS-1) 1 m FAILED
10 May 1999 Fengyun-1C Long March 4A China, weather 1.1 km? LAUNCHED
26 May 1999 Oceansat/IRS-P4 PSLV India, ocean color 350 m LAUNCHED
" KitSat-3 PSLV Korea, aka Wooribyul-3, together with Oceansat 15 m LAUNCHED
" DLR-Tubsat PSLV Germany, together with Oceansat 6 m LAUNCHED
see also DLR-Tubsat
20 June 1999 QuikSCAT Titan 2 USA, NASA, wind speed Scatterometer LAUNCHED
17 July 1999 Okean-O#1 Zenit 2 Ukraine, aka. Sich-1M (?) radar 25 & 50 m ?, 350m LAUNCHED
24 Sept 1999 Ikonos(-2) Athena 2 USA commercial 1 m LAUNCHED Ikonos-2 renamed to Ikonos
28 Sep 1999 RESURS-F-1M Russia, camera ? m LAUNCHED
14 Oct 1999 CBERS 1 China/Brazil, aka. Zi Yuan 1 20 m LAUNCHED
15 Nov 1999 MT-Sat Japan, GEO 1 km FAILED
3 Dec 1999 Helios 1B Ariane 40-3 France/Italy/Spain, Spy Sat. 1 m LAUNCHED
12 Dec 1999 DMSP Titan 2 USA defense, weather 500 m LAUNCHED
18 Dec 1999 EOS AM-1/Terra Atlas 2AS USA, NASA 15 m LAUNCHED
See also Terra, the EOS flagship
See also EOS-AM page at NASA/GSFC
See also ASTERWEB, JPL
21 Dec 1999 KOMPSAT S. Korea, experimental 10 m LAUNCHED
See also KOMPSAT
Launched in 2000
Date Spacecraft Launcher Country/Remarks Best Resolution Status
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27 Jan 2000 ASUSAT Minotaur Arizona State Univ., 5kg .5 km LAUNCHED
11 Feb 2000 SRTM Shuttle USA, Radar Topography Mission 25 m INSAR radar MISSION COMPLETED
See also NASA Space Shuttle
See also Seeing the Earth's Surface in 3-D, at NASA Quest
see also SRTM
see also SRTM images
12 Mar 2000 MTI Taurus USA, MS thermal imager 5 m VNIR, 20 m TIR LAUNCHED
3 May 2000 GOES-L Atlas 2A USA, NASA/NOAA, weather 1 km LAUNCHED
26 June 2000 FengYun-2B CZ-3 China, meteorology, GEO LAUNCHED
28 June 2000 SNAP-1 Kosmos-3M UK, Surrey, nanosat LAUNCHED
" Tsinghua-1 Tsinghua University, Beijing, microsat, hig-res imaging
See also: Tsinghua-1
15 July 2000 BIRD-Rubin Kosmos-3M DLR/Germany 100-300 m LAUNCHED
See also BIRD-Rubin
19 July 2000 Mightysat-2.1 Minotaur USA defense, Fourier Trafo IS 15 m, IS 256 bands LAUNCHED
1 Sep 2000 Ziyuan-2 CZ-4B China 5 m ? LAUNCHED
21 Sep 2000 NOAA-L Titan-2 USA, weather 1 km LAUNCHED
27 Sep 2000 TiungSat Dnepr-1 Malaysia 80 m LAUNCHED
29 Sep 2000 Kometa-20 Russia, KVR-1000 camera ~2 m LAUNCHED
20 Nov 2000 QuickBird-1 Cosmos-3M USA commercial 0.8 m FAILED
See also QuickBird-1 specs
21 Nov 2000 NMP/EO-1 Delta-2 USA, NASA 10 m, IS 315 bands LAUNCHED
See also Swales Aerospace page on EO-1
" SAC-C Delta Argentina, together with EO-1 35 m LAUNCHED
5 Dec 2000 EROS-A1 Start-1 USA/Israel, based on Ofeq-3 1.5 m LAUNCHED
Note: West Indian Space is now ImageSat International