STEX
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| Names | STEX USA 140 NROL-8 |
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| Mission type | Technology demonstration |
| Operator | NRO |
| COSPAR ID | 1998-055A |
| SATCAT no. | 25489 |
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| Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin |
| Launch mass | 539.4 kg (1,189 lb) |
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| Rocket | Taurus (rocket) |
| Launch site | Vandenberg AFB |
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Space Technology Experiments, or STEX, also known as NRO Launch 8 or NROL-8, was an experimental National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite built by Lockheed Martin. It was launched on 3 October 1998.[1] One of the experiments was ATEx (Advanced Tether Experiment), which was deployed on 22 January 1999, and subsequently jettisoned.[2]
ATEx
The Advanced Tether Experiment (ATEx), was a follow on to the TiPS experiment, designed and built by the Naval Center for Space Technology, flown as one of the experiments on STEX. ATEx had two end masses connected by a polyethylene tether that was intended to deploy to a length of 6 km, and was intended to test a new space tether deployment scheme, new tether material, active control, and survivability. ATEx was deployed on 16 January 1999 and ended 18 minutes later after deploying only 22 m of tether. The jettison was triggered by an automatic protection system designed to save STEX if the tether began to stray from its expected departure angle,[3] which was ultimately caused by excessive slack tether.[4] As a result of the deployment failure, none of the desired ATEx goals were achieved.[5] ATEx is now tracked as a separate object as USA 141 or COSPAR ID 1998-055C.[6]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."STEX". NSSDC Master Catalog Search. 8 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ATEx". NSSDC Master Catalog Search. 8 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Advanced Tether Experiment (ATEx)". U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gates, Stephen S.; Koss, Stephen M.; Zedd, Michael F. (January–February 2001). "Advanced Tether Experiment Deployment Failure". Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 38 (1): 60–68. Bibcode:2001JSpRo..38...60G. doi:10.2514/2.3655.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kramer, Herbert J. "STEX (Space Technology Experiment) / ATEx". eoPortal. European Space Agency. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NSSDCA – STEX – Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
External links
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- STEX at Gunter's Space Page
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