Also called:
Solar Radiation Monitoring Satellite
System or Solrad Hi
Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU)
between NASA and Naval Research
Laboratory Naval Electronics Systems Command
Date of launch (range):
Mar. 15, 1976 (ETR)
Launch vehicle:
Titan IIIC
Shape:
donut-shaped
Weight (kg):
182
Dimensions (m):
1.4, diam.
0.4, height
Power source:
solar panels
Prime contractor:
NRL in-house
Date of reentry:
N/A
NASA's role:
tracking and data acquisition
support
Responsible NASA center:
GSFC
Project manager:
N/A
Project scientist:
N/A
Objectives:
One of a pair of spacecraft to
provide real-time, continuous monitoring of solar x-ray,
ultraviolet, and energetic particle emissions.
Experiments (responsible country or
organization):
.
25 experiments that made use of the
following hardware:
broadband ion chamber
proportional counters and
scintillators
EUV detector
variable resolution Ebert-Fostic
spectrometer
solar wind monitor
solar proton, electron, and alpha
particle monitors
x-ray polarimeters
Bragg spectrometer
Large-area auroral x-ray
detector
passively-cooled solid-state -ray
detector
cosmic-ray burst detector
experiments sponsored by the
following organizations:
NRL
Johns Hopkins
MIT
U.S. Air Force Geophysics
Laboratory
Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory
Aerospace Corp.
Results:
Successful; NASA support terminated
in Nov. 1979. For information on Solrad 10, see Explorer 44
(table
3-58); payload launched with
Solrad 11B and LES-8 and LES-9, two experimental Air Force
communications satellites.
Reference: NRL Press Release 9-1-76B, "Solrad Hi Is Up!" Mar. 14, 1976; and NRL, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, "Launch of the Solrad 11 A/B Satellites (Solrad Hi)," 1976.