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Class: Technology. Destination: Medium Earth Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Package Attitude Control; semi-active gravity gradient stabilization tests.

Typical orbit: 486 km x 552 km at 33 degrees inclination. Mass: 120 kg (260 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Delta N.

PAC Chronology

1969 August 9 - PAC 1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Mass: 120 kg (260 lb). Perigee: 486 km (301 mi). Apogee: 552 km (342 mi). Inclination: 32.90 deg. Period: 95.00 min.
Package Attitude Control; semi-active gravity gradient stabilization tests. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).

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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