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Other Designations: Small Expendable-tether Deployer System. Class: Technology. Type: Tether. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Air Force.

Mass: 25 kg (55 lb).

SEDS Chronology

1993 March 30 - SEDS 1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17A. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Mass: 25 kg (55 lb). Perigee: 183 km (113 mi). Apogee: 719 km (446 mi). Inclination: 36.00 deg. Period: 93.62 min.
Small Expendable-tether Deployer System.

1993 March 30 - SEDS 1 Deployer - Program: Navstar. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17A. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Perigee: 305 km (189 mi). Apogee: 1,292 km (802 mi). Inclination: 36.10 deg. Period: 100.84 min.

1994 March 10 - SEDS 2 Deployer - Program: Navstar. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17A. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Perigee: 340 km (210 mi). Apogee: 341 km (211 mi). Inclination: 32.30 deg. Period: 91.34 min.

1994 March 10 - SEDS 2 - Program: Navstar. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17A. Launch Vehicle: Delta.

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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