DAD

Other Designations: Dual Air Density Explorer. Class: Earth. Type: Atmosphere. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Dual Air Density; air density experiments.

Mass: 71 kg (156 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Scout F.

DAD Chronology

1975 December 6 - DAD-B - Program: Explorer. Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Scout F. FAILURE: Failure.

1975 December 6 - Explorer (56) - Program: Explorer. Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Scout F. FAILURE: Failure. Mass: 71 kg (156 lb).
Dual Air Density; air density experiments.

Bibliography and Further Reading

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

Bramscher, Robert G, Spaceflight, "A Survey of Launch Vehicle Failures", 1980, Volume 22, page 351.

McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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