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Other Designations: Integrated Rendezvous Target. Class: Technology. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Deployed from STS 41B 2/5/84.

Typical orbit: 279 km x 288 km at 29 degrees inclination. Mass: 91 kg (200 lb).

IRT Chronology

1984 February 3 - IRT - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC39A. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Mass: 91 kg (200 lb). Perigee: 279 km (173 mi). Apogee: 288 km (178 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 90.20 min.
Deployed from STS 41B on 5 February 1984; Integrated Rendezvous Target.

Bibliography:

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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