Engineering:Polar BEAR
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Short description: 1986 U.S. space mission
Polar BEAR, short for Polar Beacon Experiment and Auroral Research was a 1986 U.S. military space mission. Also known as STP P87-1 or STP P87-A, the craft was built for the United States Air Force by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).[1][2]
To save money, the satellite was retrieved from the National Air and Space Museum, where it had been on display for almost a decade.[3][4] It was launched on November 13, 1986, from Vandenberg AFB. Its science mission was to investigate communications interference caused by solar flares and auroral activity, continuing the work of the previous HILAT ("High Latitude") mission.
References
- ↑ "Polar Bear Quicklook". https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/QuickLooks/polarbearQL.html.
- ↑ "NASA - NSSDCA - Polar BEAR". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1986-088A.
- ↑ "Satellite Leaves Museum to Fly" (in en). New York Times. 1986-07-12. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/12/us/satellite-leaves-museum-to-fly.html.
- ↑ McCloskey, William (1987). "The Flight of Polar BEAR: A Successful Satellite Program Grows from Parts and Details". https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V08-N03/08-03-McCloskey.pdf.
External links
- Peterson, Max R.; Grant, David G. (1987). "The Polar BEAR Spacecraft". https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V08-N03/08-03-Peterson.pdf.
- Polar BEAR: 1980's Mission Deployed Museum Satellite Into National Service on YouTube - from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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