Trailblazer

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General

Designation	n/a
Launch date	3 Aug 2008
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee
Inclination
Period
Launch vehicle	Falcon 1 #3

Operated by the U.S. Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office (ORS).

The spacecraft was built and assembled on schedule and budget at SpaceDev's Poway, California/USA facility in less than five months. The Trailblazer bus serves as a risk reduction for a flexible, modular bus design using off the shelf components and could support a variety of future ORS missions.

Jumpstart demonstrates several key ORS enabling models: rapid call up of a mission to launch; rapid development, integration and checkout of spacecraft; a concept of operations that allows flexibility late in the payload processing flow to determine which mission will fly; efficiencies in processes and procedures to reduce payload integration timelines; and identification and assurance of payload technical readiness.

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End of life

Out of service	3 Aug 2008
Cause	launch failure
Decay	3 Aug 2008

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	SpaceDev
Platform	SpaceDev MMB-100 satellite bus (Trailblazer)
Mass at launch	83 kg
Dry mass
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

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