SECS (TERCEL)
SECS [DSI]
SECS (Special Experimental Communication System) is a digital store and forward communications spacecraft for a classified mission. The design is similar to GLOMR with more data storage, greater redundancy, more space qualified hardware content. SECS was the first spacecraft launched on the air-launched Pegasus launch vehicle. The spacecraft operated for 3.5 years.
| Nation: | USA |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Experimental communication |
| Operator: | US Navy |
| Contractors: | DSI |
| Equipment: | ? |
| Configuration: | GLOMR Bus (62-sided polyhedron, unstabilized, body mounted solar cells) |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 68 kg |
| Orbit: | 489 km × 668 km, 94.1° |
| Satellite | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SECS (TERCEL, USA 55) | 05.04.1990 | Ed, B-52, RW04/22 | Pegasus | with Pegsat |
