Comet C/2011l4(panstarrs) And Secrets Spy Satelites Usa238 And Usa238deb
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Local Time: 04/18/2013. 03h53'57''
40° 53΄ 56¨N. 22°, 38΄, 05¨E. http://asprosobservatory.blogspot.com
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Spacetrack catalog number 38758
COSPAR ID 2012-048-A
Name in Spacetrack catalog USA 238
Orbit 1,025 x 1,188 km, 63.4°
Country/organitisation of origin USA
Intrinsic brightness (Mag) 3.7 (at 1000km distance, 50% illuminated)
Maximum brightness (Mag) 3.8 (at perigee, 100% illuminated)
Info: http://www.heavens-above.com/satinfo.aspx?l
NROL-36
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On Sep 13 United Launch Alliance flew a Lockheed Martin Atlas V 401, serial
AV-033, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The main payload is thought to be a
pair of Navy signals intelligence satellites deployed in a 1010 x 1200
km x 63.4 deg orbit after the second Centaur burn. (The primary satellite is
USA 238; the secondary satellite has not yet been cataloged and may not
have separated yet). This series of satellites is thought to be the modern
successor to NRL's GRAB/POPPY/PARCAE satellites, first launched in 1960.
The Centaur then made two further burns to 470 x 780 km x 64.7 deg. The
Centaur second stage carries the OUTSat secondary payload which ejected
11 small 'cubesats,' for a mixture of US military and university customers.
Of particular interest is CXBN, a Morehead State U. experiment to produce
an all-sky 30-50 keV hard X-ray cosmic diffuse emission map. The two US
Army sats in the SMDC-ONE (Operational Nanosatellite Effect) program
are variously numbered 1.1/1.2 and 2.1/2.2 in different sources.
The OUTSat structure is the NPSCUl launcher developed by the US Naval
Postgraduate School. It contains 8 P-POD cubesat deployers which ejected
the individual cubesats, a mixture of 1U (0.1m cube),
2U (0.1 x 0.1 x 0.2m box) and 3U (0.1 x 0.1 x 0.3m box) payloads, as follows:
Pod 1 3U SMDC-ONE 1.2 (US Army Space and Missile Defence Command, Huntsville, Alabama)
Comms
Pod 3 3U Aeneas (U. Southern California, Los Angeles and Dept. of Homeland Security)
Cargo container tracking
Pod 4 3U CSSWE (U. Colorado, Boulder) Colorado Student Space Weather Expt.
Radiation belt electrons and protons
Pod 5 1U CP5 (Cal Poly. State U., San Luis Obispo)
Solar sail deorbit technology
2U CXBN (Morehead State U., Morehead, Kentucky)
Cosmic Hard X-ray background
Pod 6 3U CINEMA 1 (U Cal. Berkeley)
Magentospheric studies
Pod 7 3U Re (Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, California)
Space debris tracking
Pod 8 3U SMDC-ONE 1.1 (US Army Space and Missile Defence Command, Huntsville, Alabama)
Comms
Pod 2 1U Aerocube 4 (Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California)
1U Aerocube 4A (Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California)
1U Aerocube 4B (Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California)
The payloads were ejected in the order Pod 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,2. I believe
the OUTSat remained attached to the Centaur; whether you count it as an
attached secondary payload or a non-payload piece of hardware is a
matter of taste, but I'll count it as a payload.
Since their first flight in 2003, 102 Cubesats have been launched: 2
suborbital, 19 launch failures (4 exoatmospheric), and 81 orbital. Of
these, 60 are still in orbit. This includes two attached pairs,
M-Cubed/E1PU2 and STARS-1, and five cubesats currently aboard the Kibo module
which should be deployed later this month.
From: http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.667
More informations and photo of satelites: http://www.spaceflight101.com/nrol-36-launch-updates.html
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