GemStar

Class: Communications. Nation: USA. Agency: ???.

Global Electronic Messaging Satellite.

Mass: 113 kg (249 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Athena-1.

GemStar Chronology

1995 August 15 - GemStar 1 (VitaSat) - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Athena-1. FAILURE: Destroyed by range safety 160 sec into flight after failure of thrust vector control system. Mass: 113 kg (249 lb).
Global Electronic Messaging Satellite;.

Bibliography and Further Reading

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

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