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Other Designations: Test and Training Satellite. Class: Technology. Type: Tracking network. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Tested Apollo tracking network.

Typical orbit: 331 x 717 km, 32.9 deg inclinaton.

TTS Chronology

1967 December 13 - TTS 1 - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17B. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Mass: 20 kg (44 lb). Perigee: 287 km (178 mi). Apogee: 490 km (300 mi). Inclination: 32.90 deg. Period: 92.20 min.
Test and Training Satellite; tested Apollo tracking network. Spacecraft engaged in practical applications and uses of space technology such as weather or communication (US Cat C).

1968 November 8 - TTS 2; TATS 2 (TETR 2) - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC17B. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Mass: 40 kg (88 lb). Perigee: 375 km (233 mi). Apogee: 945 km (587 mi). Inclination: 32.90 deg. Period: 98.00 min.
Test and Training Satellite; test vehicle for NASA Manned Space Flight Network. Spacecraft engaged in practical applications and uses of space technology such as weather or communication (US Cat C).

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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