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Class: Earth. Type: Magnetosphere. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force. Satellite collected artificial radiation data (resulting from atmospheric and exoatmospheric nuclear explosions).
SpecificationTotal Mass: 1,125 kg.
Starfish Chronology
26 October 1962
Starfish Radiation 1 Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena D. Mass: 1,100 kg. Perigee: 197 km. Apogee: 5,458 km. Inclination: 71.4 deg. Artificial radiation data.
02 September 1965
Starfish Radiation 2 Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena D. FAILURE: Agena-D failed; destroyed by range safety. Mass: 1,150 kg. Artificial radiation data.
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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