CDS

Class: Technology. Type: Communications. Destination: Medium Earth Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: Orbcomm.

Experimental spacecraft.

Typical orbit: 731 km x 794 km at 25 degrees inclination. Mass: 15 kg (33 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Pegasus.

CDS Chronology

1993 February 9 - Orbcomm OXP-1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Pegasus. Mass: 15 kg (33 lb). Perigee: 731 km (454 mi). Apogee: 794 km (493 mi). Inclination: 25.00 deg. Period: 100.10 min.
Experimental spacecraft. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

Bibliography and Further Reading

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.

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.

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.

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

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