Radcal

Class: Calibration. Destination: Medium Earth Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force.

Radar calibration.

Typical orbit: 751 km x 884 km at 90 degrees inclination. Mass: 95 kg (209 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Scout G.

Radcal Chronology

1993 June 25 - Radcal - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Scout G. Mass: 95 kg (209 lb). Perigee: 753 km (467 mi). Apogee: 882 km (548 mi). Inclination: 89.60 deg. Period: 101.20 min.
Radar calibration. Spacecraft engaged in practical applications and uses of space technology such as weather or communication (US Cat C).

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.

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

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