Step 3

Also called P92-2

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General

Launch date	22 Jun 1995
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Military: technology
Launch vehicle	Pegasus #9 (XL)
Mass at launch	265 kg

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End of life

Out of service	22 Jun 1995
Cause	Launch failure

Built by TRW, it carried the SAMME (Space Active Modular Materials Experiments) payload to study exposure to space of solar cells and advanced materials, as well as vibration suppression technology and experimental computer disk drives.

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	TRW
Platform	STEP
Mass at launch
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power	132 W
Design lifetime	1 year

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