ORS Mk.3 (ERS)

ORS 3 [USAF]
Payloads:
- ORS 3 (ERS 17): Trapped radiation measurements for correlation with Vela data, Cosmic
rays, Solar and galactic gamma and X-rays, 5.4 kg, operated for 104 days
- ORS 4 (ERS 18): investigation of the Van Allen belts; carried six Geiger-Müller counters, low- and high-energy photomultiplier detectors, an X-ray detector, a solid state electron and proton detector and a surface barrier proton detector
Orbits:
- ORS 3: 153 km × 112964 km × 34.4°
- ORS 4: 8604 km × 111229 km × 32.8°
| Nation: |
USA |
| Type / Application: |
Experimental |
| Operator: |
USAF |
| Contractors: |
TRW Systems Group |
| Equipment: |
various: see above |
| Configuration: |
Octahedron (ORS Mk.3) |
| Propulsion: |
None |
| Power: |
Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: |
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| Mass: |
? |
| Orbit: |
various: see above |
Further ERS / ORS / TRS / TTS missions:
- ERS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (TRS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) [TRS Mk.1]
- ERS 11, 12, 13, 14 [TRS Mk.2]
- ERS 15, 16, 23, 24, 25 (ORS 1, 2) [ORS Mk.2]
- ERS 17, 18 (ORS 3, 4) [ORS Mk.3]
- ERS 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 (OV5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- ERS 30, 31, 32, 33 (TTS 1, 2, 3, 4)