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Other Designations: Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped Satellite. Class: Technology. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA-GSFC. Passive attitude control technology test. Deployed from shuttle STS-77 on 5/22/96; Re-entered Oct 26.
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PAMS Chronology
19 May 1996
PAMS STU Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 132 km. Apogee: 138 km. Inclination: 39.0 deg. LEO. Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped Satellite; deployed from STS 77 5/22/96; attitude control technology test. Reentered Oct 26.
Bibliography:- 4 - McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. HTML when accessed: ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/jcm/space/news
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
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