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IBSS-SPAS
Free-flying experiment carried on Space Shuttle mission STS-39. IBSS-SPAS was launched on April 28, 1991 aboard a Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: attached to another object (May 1, 1991).
COSPAR 1991-031BNORAD 21244United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- IBSS/SPAS
- Common name
- IBSS-SPAS
- Payload designation
- SPAS-2
- International designator
- 1991-031B
- NORAD catalog number
- 21244
- GCAT identifier
- S21244
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/258
Mission
- Mission type
- Missile early warning, Technology
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- SPAS
- Owner
- SDIO
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA)-Ottobrunn
- Platform (bus)
- SPAS
Launch
- Date
- April 28, 1991 · 11:33 UTC
- Launch record
- 1991-031Success
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC39A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 242 km
- Apogee
- 257 km
- Inclination
- 56.99°
- Status
- Attached to another object
- Status date
- May 1, 1991
- Last known active
- May 4, 1991
- End of operations
- May 4, 1991
Size
- Mass
- 1,835 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,793 kg
- Length
- 4.8 m
- Diameter
- 1.50 m
- Span
- 4.8 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q5915906 (CC0).