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Other Designations: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Class: Earth. Type: Weather. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 188 kg.
DMSP Block 5C Chronology
09 August 1974
DMSP-Block-5C F1 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. Mass: 195 kg. Perigee: 779 km. Apogee: 844 km. Inclination: 98.8 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
24 May 1975
DMSP-Block-5C F2 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. Mass: 194 kg. Perigee: 794 km. Apogee: 880 km. Inclination: 98.7 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
19 February 1976
DMSP-Block-5C F3 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. FAILURE: Thor failed. Partial Failure. Mass: 175 kg. Perigee: 89 km. Apogee: 361 km. Inclination: 98.9 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program; unusable orbit.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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