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Weather Satellites: ESSA II

ESSA II - Environmental Science Services Administration Satellite II

Launch date: February 28, 1966

Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launch vehicle: Three-stage Delta

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:

To complement ESSA I and provide direct readout cloud cover photography to ground stations world-wide using APT.
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