ORS 1

Also called USA 231

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General

Designation	37728 / 11029A
Launch date	30 Jun 2011
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Military: Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	400 km
Inclination	40°
Period
Launch vehicle	Minotaur #12

Provides color pictures of regions selected by ground force commanders, and use existing ground systems to process and distribute the images and other information out to the battlefield. The system is designed to support urgent military needs for the U.S. Central Command intelligence.

Went operational in Sep 2011.

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End of life

Decay

12 Mar 2018

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Goodrich Corporation (Danbury, Conn. USA)
Platform	ATK A200 (based on the TacSat 3 bus)
Mass at launch	500 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

The payload leverages the latest evolution of the Goodrich SYERS-2 multi-spectral sensor, the primary imaging sensor used on the U-2 reconnaissance plane.
Goodrich is also providing a ground segment that formats the data from the sensor payload to be compatible with the downstream processing, exploitation, and dissemination used for the operational SYERS-2 sensor.
Would have a 1-m resolution.

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