 The Delta 180 payload shortly before launch | |
| Names | TVE USA 19 DM-43 SDI-1 |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Technology demonstration |
| COSPAR ID | 1986-069A 1986-069B |
| SATCAT no. | 16937 16938 |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | September 5, 1986, 15:08:00 UTC |
| Rocket | Delta 3920 (D180) |
| Launch site | LC-17B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station |
| Contractor | NASA[1] |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Intentional collision |
| Destroyed | Same day, 17:52 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Eccentricity | 0.03701 |
| Perigee altitude | 212.00 km |
| Apogee altitude | 719.00 km |
| Inclination | 39.100° |
| Period | 93.90 minutes |
| Epoch | September 5, 1986 |
The Delta 180 mission, which carried the Vector Sum Experiment payload, was an American military Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test and the first launch of a payload for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program.
SDIO Star Wars
Deliberately crashed two satellites into each other
For SCIENCE!!! (mainly military science)
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editHow could I forget https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V11-N1-2/11-01-Dassoulas.pdf
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/09/06/us-launches-delta-rocket/cff93ffc-6a7c-49b4-ac86-d69a70e64c40/
- https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4622/1
- https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/12/us/test-on-missile-defense-is-hailed-by-the-military.html
- https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1988-161
- https://spp.fas.org/military/program/cape/cape3-5.htm
- https://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19860915
- https://www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium/Archive/Detail?colloqid=656
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03546225
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-04-mn-14121-story.html
- https://ota.fas.org/reports/8837.pdf (same as the Princeton papers)
Debris:
- https://planet4589.org/space/debris/debriscat/86069A/86069A.html
- https://planet4589.org/space/debris/debriscat/86069B/86069B.html
- https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA352037.pdf
- https://swfound.org/media/207611/fs23-08_us-co-orbital-asat-testing_0723.pdf
- https://swfound.org/media/207567/swf_global_counterspace_capabilities_2023_v2.pdf (Also LACE)
- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/26/why-trumps-new-space-directive-resonates/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/02/13/abm-vs-sdi/1600e1ca-d158-4547-86b3-58c1d8d01813/ (paywall)
- https://time.com/archive/6708425/from-star-wars-to-smart-rocks/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/29/science/the-star-wars-program-prepares-for-a-year-of-reckoning.html (Also LACE)
- https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/dev/hillger/military-wx.htm#other (basic database, with pictures of launch postcards??)
- https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-institute-for-foreign-policy-analysis-conference-the-strategic-defense
- https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-institute-foreign-policy-analysis-conference-strategic-defense-initiative
- https://books.google.com/books?id=BhbuNAabQfcC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=delta+180+sdi&source=bl&ots=Dez1ae6MA5&sig=ACfU3U0BUaPR13MMs6sWnsD3VE4nEU0lVg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKnfSB67aGAxXkg4kEHdx5AOE4eBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=delta%20180%20sdi&f=false
- https://books.google.com/books?id=3w5juZNA0joC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=delta+180+sdi&source=bl&ots=sBe1oFU0dk&sig=ACfU3U2tX70Vb4np1GVj7KO5Jh0Q7d8ScA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKnfSB67aGAxXkg4kEHdx5AOE4eBDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=delta%20180%20sdi&f=false
Could also cite the Heritage Foundation opinion pieces, but both incorrectly describe the mission as a ground-based rocket intercepting an orbiting satellite, instead of a satellite-satellite collision. Newsmax sources were removed per community consensus, and they weren't too useful to this future article.
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editWikimedia Commons has media related to Vector Sum Experiment.
- ^ NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center (June 1999). "Major NASA Launches" (PDF). Information Summaries. p. [2]. Retrieved 7 July 2024.