Trumpet Follow-on
Spacecraft · USA
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Probably a signals intelligence satellite with an attached SBIRS-HEO early warning sensor as a secondary payload. ELINT satellite for USAF, USA. Launched 2014.
More at: Trumpet Follow-on.
Subtopics
- Trumpet-F/O 1, 2 Null
Related
- Family
- Surveillance
- Country
- USA
- Launch Vehicles
- Atlas V, Atlas V 541
- Launch Sites
- Vandenberg SLC3E
- Bibliography
- 13299
Chronology
1 event
2014 December 13
03:19 GMT - . Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Complex: Vandenberg SLC3E. LV Family: Atlas V. Launch Vehicle: Atlas V 541.- USA 259 - .
Nation: USA.
Class: Surveillance.
Type: SIGINT. Spacecraft: Trumpet Follow-on.
USAF Sat Cat: 40344 . COSPAR: 2014-081A. Apogee: 38,204 km (23,738 mi). Perigee: 2,157 km (1,340 mi). Inclination: 62.80 deg.
Probably a signals intelligence satellite with an attached SBIRS-HEO early warning sensor as a secondary payload. This mission used the new RL-10C-1 upper stage engine for the first time (refurbished from Delta IV RL-10B-2 engines; replacing the RL10A-4 used previously)