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Midcourse Space Experiment
Midcourse Space Experiment
Names
MSX
Operator
BMDO
COSPAR ID
1996-024A
SATCAT no.
23851
Website
MSX home page
Mission duration
8 months and 8 days
Spacecraft properties
Launch mass
2,700 kg (6,000 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
April 24, 1996 (1996-04-24)
Rocket
Delta 7920-10
Launch site
Vandenberg AFB SLC-2W
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Perigee altitude
898 km (558 mi)
Apogee altitude
903 km (561 mi)
Period
100 minutes
The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared sources in space. MSX offered the first system demonstration of technology in space to identify and track ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase.[1]
The MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared...
included one spaceborne sensor, the space-based visible (SBV) sensor, carried into orbit aboard the MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) satellite launched by the...
(DSP), MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) and a NASA research and development program, in low earth to deep space orbits, and is Air Force Space Command's...
Nebula. This nebula was given the name War and Peace Nebula by the MidcourseSpaceExperiment scientists because of its appearance, which, in infrared images...
until 2007, the 7th operated the MidcourseSpaceExperiment satellite, Air Force Space Command's only space-based space surveillance asset and also performed...
smaller diameter value of 41.33 ± 1.73 km is obtained from the MidcourseSpaceExperiment observations, with an accordingly higher albedo of 0.2886 ± 0...
missions, including the Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) and the MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX). IPAC also expanded its support to include ground-based...
a diameter estimate of 37.93 ± 3.17 km was obtained from the MidcourseSpaceExperiment observations, with an albedo of 0.2523 ± 0.0448. A stellar occultation...
This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...
larger diameter value of 123.41 ± 4.07 km was obtained from the MidcourseSpaceExperiment observations, with an albedo of 0.0557 ± 0.0039. A 2012 study...
July 2008, the 1st Space Operations Squadron decommissioned and disposed of the MidcourseSpaceExperiment. In March 2009, the 21st Space Operations Squadron...
maximum temperatures. Data from the IRAS minor planet survey or the MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) minor planet survey is the usual source of the diameter...
have been struck by re-entering space debris, when a small piece of the rocket launching the MidcourseSpaceExperiment harmlessly struck her shoulder...
and South America, Europe and Africa. During its totality, the MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) satellite's SPIRIT-III instrument took the image of the...
pulsar MSSS – (organization) Maui Space Surveillance Site MSX – (telescope) MidcourseSpaceEXperiment, an infrared space telescope MSSSO – (organization)...
lunar eclipse by the SPIRIT-III instrument aboard the orbiting MidcourseSpaceExperiment (MSX) satellite. On the Moon, they are seen as solar eclipses...
distance of 540,000 km. It was observed with adaptive optics by the MidcourseSpaceExperiment. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.6–3.5 AU once every 2 years...
Lt Col Chance Saltzman (July 2007-2008) Space Surveillance Network MidcourseSpaceExperiment Air Force Space Command Fourteenth Air Force Notes Haulman...
metallic material. U.S. Space Command confirmed that a used Delta II rocket from the April 1996 launch of the MidcourseSpaceExperiment had crashed into the...
infrared radiometer in the SM, as well as the ultraviolet spectrometer. One midcourse correction was performed, lasting 9 seconds. On December 19, the crew...
first midcourse correction were credited with saving enough onboard fuel that JWST may be able to maintain its orbit for around 20 years instead. Space.com...
short-wave infrared sensors, would be able to acquire and track missiles in midcourse and during the boost phase. STSS was designed to be the low Earth orbiter...
air-transportable X-band radar. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense is an anti-ballistic missile system operated by Army Space and Missile Defense Command to defend...