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Space commemorative cover
or Space Cover.
Cosmodrom : USA
Date of Cancellation: Nov. 15, 1961
Kind of Event : Launch
Launch pad : USA KSC (FL)
habité?/manned?: robot
Mission type : Telecommunications
ou?/where?: au sol - ground
autographe?: non - noneDescription : Transit 4B was a US Navy navigation satellite launched by a Thor Able Star rocket. It carried a SNAP 3 nuclear power source. Transit, one of the first operational satellite systems, was also known as the Navy Navigation Satellite (NNS).
Individual Transit satellites operated for over 10 years.
The use of the satellites for navigation was discontinued at the end of 1996 but the satellites continued transmitting and became the Navy Ionospheric Monitoring System (NIMS). Keyword(s) :
#Planet,
#Satellite, SPACE REVUE : 02 - 2015 Last modified: 06/08/2015 @ 16h08
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