Quick Scatterometer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
June, 1999 to October, 2015

QuikSCAT is a NASA ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program satellite built by BATC (Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, CO. The QuikSCAT mission was initiated in the wake of the lost NSCAT (NASA Scatterometer) instrument measurements aboard NASDA's ADEOS-1 satellite. The ADEOS-1 S/C ceased functioning on June 30, 1997.

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Instrument	Datasets
SeaWinds	29

Also known as :

• missionID 339 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission QuikSCAT (ceos lexicon)
• resource QuikSCAT (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform QUIKSCAT (podaac lexicon)