QuickSCAT

 1999-034A

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QuickSCAT  was ordered in Nov 1997 for launch in Nov 1998, to replace the NSCAT scatterometer on the failed ADEOS craft and fill a data gap prior to its ADEOS-2 successor instrument SeaWinds. QuickSCAT (or QuikScat) is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Earth Science/Mission to Planet Earth, and Goddard procures the BCP-2000 (RS-2000) satellite built by Ball Aerospace under a special fast procurement method. Launch will be by Titan II. The satellite has a rotating dish microwave antenna like SeaWinds.

Quikscat
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Jun 20	0215:00	Launch
		T+2:31 Stage 1 MECO
		T+2:32 Stage 2
		T+2:33 Stage 1 sep
		T+3:37 Titan 23G Short Fairing sep
	0220	T+5:36 Stage 2 MECO	222 x 815 x 98.6
	0310	T+55:48 Stage 2 vernier apogee burn, 15s
	0313	T+58:43 Stage 2 sep	276 x 815 x 98.6
	0315	T+1:00:00 Solar array deploy
	0345	T+1:30:43 Stage 2 retro burn
1999 Jun 24	2000	Begin orbit raising burns	95.62 281 x 815 x 98.7
1999 Jun 24			95.82 302 x 814 x 98.7
1999 Jun 27			99.11 601 x 830 x 98.7
1999 Jun 29			100.21 715 x 821 x 98.7
1999 Jul 1			100.21 714 x 822 x 98.7
1999 Jul 3			100.21 724 x 812 x 98.7
1999 Jul 5			101.01 791 x 820 x 98.6
1999 Jul 9		Final burns	101.01 791 x 820 x 98.6
1999 Jul 14			100.99 797 x 814 x 98.6
1999 Jul 19			101.00 804 x 807 x 98.6
1999 Jul 30			101.00 804 x 806 x 98.6
2001 Jan 31			100.97 804 x 805 x 98.6
2003 Jul 3			100.94 802 x 803 x 98.6
2006 Apr		Still operating