Stpsat 2

Also called USA 217

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General

Designation	37222 / 10062A
Launch date	20 Nov 2010
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	650 km
Inclination
Period
Launch vehicle	Minotaur 4 #10

Built for the USAF.

Has 2 experiments, the joint Air Force/Army Space Phenomenology Experiment and the Naval Research Lab Ocean Data Telemetry MicroSat Link experiment. The STPSat 2 spacecraft will be command and controlled from the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Support Center, a Space Operations Center organic to the Space Development and Test Wing, located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

This satellite will also be first to use the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture, capable of operating multiple spacecraft simultaneously with decreased integration cost by utilising a common open-architecture core system.

STPsat 3 will be identical.

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Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Ball Aerospace
Platform
Mass at launch	135 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

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