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TacSat-1
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TACOMSAT (also known as TACSAT 1, OPS 0757, or Tactical Communications Satellite) was a communications satellite designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Corporation under the direction of the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO). TACOMSAT was used by the United States Department of Defense to explore the feasibility of geostationary satellite communications between ground stations comprising fixed bases, military field units, aircraft, and ships.
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It sits within the topics 1969 in Florida, Communications satellites of the United States and February 1969 in the United States.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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- TACOMSAT
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1969-02-09
- space launch vehicle
- Titan IIIC
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
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TACOMSAT (also known as TACSAT 1, OPS 0757, or Tactical Communications Satellite) was a communications satellite designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Corporation under the direction of the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO). TACOMSAT was used by the United States Department of Defense to explore the feasibility of geostationary satellite communications between ground stations comprising fixed bases, military field units, aircraft, and ships.
== Construction == At in length and in diameter, TACOMSAT was the largest and most powerful communications satellite at the time of its launch. The -long main cylinder of the HS-308 bus was spin-stabilized at 54 rpm with the antennas mounted to a despun platform in an early version of the Hughes Gyrostat design. The platform was equipped with a variety of antennas, including a five-element UHF bifilar helical antenna array, two X band horn antennas, and a biconical antenna for telemetry and control.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “TacSat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.