NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Wideband

Launch Time
Sat May 22, 1976 07:42 UTC

Rocket

Scout B1
US Air Force
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 622 kN
Payload to LEO: 129 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 21.0 m

Mission Details

Wideband

Wideband, also known as STP P76-5, was a military mission designed to evaluate propagation effects of disturbed plasmas on radar and communications systems.

The spacecraft was built on the Transit-O 15 navigational satellite. Wideband was gravity gradient stabilized by deployable boom with tip mass and was powered by 4 small deployable solar arrays. It featured Defense Nuclear Agency's Wideband beacon, DNA-002, as its sole payload. DNA-002 was a propagation experiment for a multifrequency beacon, VHF to S-band. The experiment was 80 percent successful and contributed to an ionospheric radio/radar disturbance VHF/S-band data base.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 73.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

SLC-5, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Stats

1976

48th orbital launch attempt

Scout

76th mission
1st mission of 1976
63rd successful mission
25th consecutive successful mission