Feb 23 1999
From The Space Library
Boeing launched a Delta II rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying the first science satellites from Denmark and South Africa and the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS). The Air Force intended the Boeing-built ARGOS to spend three years in space, "collecting data on the Earth's global environment and performing technology demonstrations for top-priority military space programs," as well as testing advanced space technologies for use on the ISS. The launches of Denmark's Orsted and South Africa's SUNSAT (Stellenbosch University, South Africa, satellite) were critical milestones for both countries' space programs. SUNSAT carried remote-sensing experiments to produce images from space at lower cost than larger systems, and Denmark deployed Orsted to study Earth's magnetic fields and electrical properties.
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