IBSS

Other Designations: Infrared Background Signature Survey. Class: Astronomy. Type: Infrared. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force.

Sensor technology test; retrieved 5/2/91.

Typical orbit: 245 km x 255 km at 57 degrees inclination. Mass: 1,901 kg (4,190 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

IBSS Chronology

1991 April 28 - IBSS - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Mass: 1,901 kg (4,190 lb). Perigee: 245 km (152 mi). Apogee: 255 km (158 mi). Inclination: 57.00 deg. Period: 89.50 min.
Infrared Background Signature Survey; sensor technology test; retrieved 2 May 1991.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

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.

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

USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

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