The X3 satellite, the first technological spacecraft in the British National Space Programme, is scheduled to be launched on a Black Arrow vehicle in late 1971. The spacecraft carries experiments to investigate performance of solar cells, characteristics of thermal surfaces, micrometeoroid flux and performance in orbit of a hybrid electronics package: section 4.4 gives details. In addition newly developed data, telemetry, telecommand and power system will be tested in orbit. The micrometeoroid flux experiment has been contributed by the University of Birmingham, England. (Author)


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    Title :

    Orbital Operations Handbook for the X3 Satellite


    Contributors:
    V. W. Adams (author)

    Publication date :

    1971


    Size :

    63 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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