Small Expendable Deployer System
Launch data:
| Designation |
22582
/ 93017B
|
|
Launch
date
|
30
Mar 1993 - 03:29 UT
|
| Launch site | CC, LC17A |
| Launch vehicle | Delta-7925 (#219) |
| Mission | Tether experiment |
| Operator | NASA |
| Earth orbit: |
|
Perigee/Apogee
|
184/746
km
|
|
Inclination
|
34°
|
|
Period
|
|
|
Mass
at launch
|
23
kg
|
The system consisted of a small 10 kg deployer cylinder 33 cm long and a tiny
23 kg satellite (`end mass') of similar size. The satellite was connected to
the cylinder by a rope made of Spectra-1000 which was 0.75 mm in diameter and
20 km long. The cylinder remained attached to the Delta second stage rocket in
orbit.
Seds was developed and built by NASA-Marshall, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, and Tether Applications of San Diego, CA. The end mass was
built by NASA-Langley.
End of life
Ref: #1, #15 - update: 24.10.04