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Class: Calibration. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Navy. Surveillance Calibration; black 14 inch dia. sphere.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 9 kg.
Tempsat Chronology
13 August 1965
Tempsat 1 Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Able-Star. Mass: 9 kg. Perigee: 1,078 km. Apogee: 1,186 km. Inclination: 90.0 deg. Surveillance Calibration; black 14 inch dia. sphere. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).
30 September 1969
Tempsat 2 Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: LT Thor Agena D. Perigee: 899 km. Apogee: 924 km. Inclination: 70.0 deg. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).
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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