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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: 195 kg.
DMSP Block 5A Chronology
11 February 1970
DMSP-Block-5A F1 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. Mass: 195 kg. Perigee: 749 km. Apogee: 840 km. Inclination: 98.8 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
03 September 1970
DMSP-Block-5A F2 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. Mass: 195 kg. Perigee: 739 km. Apogee: 837 km. Inclination: 99.0 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
17 February 1971
DMSP Block 5A F3 Program: DMSP. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Burner. Mass: 195 kg. Perigee: 741 km. Apogee: 799 km. Inclination: 98.7 deg. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
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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