'Secret' Shuttle payloads revealed
Abstract
A secret military payload carried by the orbiter Discovery launched on January 24 1985 is discussed. Secondary payloads on the military Shuttle flights are briefly reviewed. Most of the military middeck experiments were sponsored by the Space Test Program established at the Pentagon to oversee all Defense Department space research projects.
- Publication:
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Spaceflight
- Pub Date:
- May 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993SpFl...35..153P
- Keywords:
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- Military Technology;
- Selective Dissemination Of Information;
- Space Shuttle Missions;
- Space Shuttle Payloads;
- Military Spacecraft;
- Security;
- Space Surveillance;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Astronautics (General)