OTS

Other Designations: Orbital Test Satellite. Class: Technology. Destination: Geosynchronous Orbit. Nation: Europe. Agency: ESA.

Communications experiments satellite of the European Space Agency.

Typical orbit: 36084 km x 36132 km at 9 degrees inclination. Mass: 865 kg (1,906 lb).

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.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.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.

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