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Other Designations: Radiation Meteoroid. Class: Earth. Type: Micrometeoroid. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Radiation Meteoroid. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 46 kg.
RM Chronology
16 August 1968
RM-18 Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: SLV-3 Atlas. FAILURE: Failure.
09 November 1970
RM-1; RMS Launch Site: Wallops Island . Launch Vehicle: Scout B. Mass: 46 kg. Perigee: 303 km. Apogee: 526 km. Inclination: 37.4 deg. Radiation Meteoroid. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).
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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