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Class: Technology. Type: Navigation. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy. Navigation experiments.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 700 kg.
Timation Chronology
31 May 1967
Timation 1 Program: Navstar. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena D. Mass: 700 kg. Perigee: 894 km. Apogee: 900 km. Inclination: 70.0 deg. Navigation experiments. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).
30 September 1969
Timation 2 Program: Navstar. Launch Site: Vandenberg . Launch Vehicle: LT Thor Agena D. Perigee: 898 km. Apogee: 925 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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