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Other Designations: Tethered Satellite System. Class: Technology. Type: Tether. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: Italy. Agency: ASI. Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke February 25 1996. Re-entered March 19. Typical orbit: 181 km circular orbit, 28.5 deg inclination.
TSS Chronology - 1996 February 22 - TSS-1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 173 km (107 mi). Apogee: 189 km (117 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 88.10 min.
LEO. Tether deployment test; 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke 2/25/96 Reentered Mar 19.
- 1996 February 25 - TSS tether breaks -
Test from shuttle of 20 km long tether; satellite unintentionally deployed when tether broke. Re-entered March 19.
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