Aura launched successfully and deployed its solar arrays on July 15, 2004. Congratulations Aura Team! See
NASA's Aura Web Site or visit non-NASA web sites at
Space Archive.
Aura's four instruments are: the High Resolution Dynamics
Limb Sounder (HIRDLS); the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS); the
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI); and the Tropospheric
Emission Spectrometer (TES). HIRDLS was built by the United Kingdom and the United States. OMI was built by the Netherlands and Finland in collaboration with NASA. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., constructed TES and MLS. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the Aura mission.