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Class: Technology. Type: Tether. Nation: Italy. Agency: ASI. Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke February 25 1996. Re-entered March 19.
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TSS Chronology
22 February 1996
TSS-1 Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 173 km. Apogee: 189 km. Inclination: 28.5 deg. LEO. Tether deployment test; 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke 2/25/96 Reentered Mar 19.
25 February 1996
TSS tether breaks Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke. Re-entered March 19.
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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