Also called:
Navy Navigation Satellite;
Transit
Date of launch (ocation):
Oct. 29, 1973 (WTR)
Launch vehicle:
Scout
Weight (kg):
Not available.
Shape:
Octagonal central body with four
solar paddles
Dimensions (m):
Not available
Power source:
Solar panels plus NiCd
batteries
NASA's role:
Launch vehicle (reimbursable)
Cooperating organizations:
NASA and U.S. Navy
Responsible NASA center:
Goddard Space Flight Center
Project manager:
Robert Goss
Prime contractor:
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory
Objectives:
To provide communications support for
military navigation.
Results:
Successful; part of the
five-satellite Navy Navigation Satellite System, made up of
several different kinds of Transit satellites.
Reference: Geoff Richard, "Transit-The First Navigational Satellite System," Spaceflight 21 (Feb. 2, 1979): 50-55.