PAMS

Other Designations: Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped Satellite. Class: Technology. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA-GSFC.

Passive attitude control technology test. Deployed from shuttle STS-77 on 5/22/96; Re-entered Oct 26.

Typical orbit: 135 km circular orbit, 39 deg inclination. Associated Launch Vehicle: Shuttle.

PAMS Chronology

1996 May 19 - PAMS STU - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 132 km (82 mi). Apogee: 138 km (85 mi). Inclination: 39.00 deg. Period: 87.20 min.
LEO. Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically Damped Satellite; deployed from STS 77 5/22/96; attitude control technology test. Reentered Oct 26.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. Essential internet newsletter recording worldwide weekly space events. Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

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

NASA GSFC Orbital Parameters, .

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