US Air Force Titan ll launches the DMSP F16 10-18-2003
The U.S. military has a constellation of two primary DMSP satellites and older backups working in space, giving meteorologists the information needed to generate forecasts that commanders and troops rely upon in strategic and tactical planning.
US Air Force Titan ll launches the DMSP F16 weather satellite. VAFB, CA. at 9:17 a.m. PDT 10-18-2003
US Air Force Titan ll launches the DMSP F16 weather satellite. VAFB, CA. at 9:17 a.m. PDT 10-18-2003. This was final time a Titan 2 rocket will ever fly. Titan 2 is a decades-long program that began as a missile in the United States' arsenal against the Soviet Union, launched NASA's Gemini astronauts in the mid-1960s and in recent years carried smaller satellites into space. The DMSP F16 craft, with its complement of eight instruments, will track clouds, storm systems and hurricanes around the world for weather forecasting, plus monitor ice and snow coverage, pollution and fires.
The U.S. military has a constellation of two primary DMSP satellites and older backups working in space, giving meteorologists the information needed to generate forecasts that commanders and troops rely upon in strategic and tactical planning.
