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DSP F9
These Defense Support System satellites were the space-based segment of a 2-tiered ballistic missile launch detection and warning system.. DSP F9 was launched on March 16, 1981 aboard a Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1981-025ANORAD 12339United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- DSP F9
- Payload designation
- DSP 10
- Other names
- OPS 7350
- International designator
- 1981-025A
- NORAD catalog number
- 12339
- GCAT identifier
- S12339
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/049
Mission
- Mission type
- Missile early warning
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- DSP MP
- Owner
- USAF SD
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- TRW Inc.
- Platform (bus)
- DSP MOS/PIM
Launch
- Date
- March 16, 1981 · 19:24 UTC
- Launch record
- 1981-025Success
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,750 km
- Apogee
- 35,800 km
- Inclination
- 0.00°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- January 1988
- End of operations
- 1988
Size
- Mass
- 1,180 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,050 kg
- Length
- 7.0 m
- Diameter
- 2.80 m
- Span
- 7.7 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q113172779 (CC0).