Clark [NASA]
Clark was one of two missions selected under NASA's SSTI (Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative) program to demonstrate advanced spacecraft technologies (11 July 1994). The payload would have consisted of:
Due to cost overuns, Clark was cancelled in 1998. The Worldview instrument was flown on the private Earlybird satellite.
Nation: | USA |
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Type / Application: | Earth observation |
Operator: | NASA |
Contractors: | CTA → Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) (bus); Worldview Imaging (imager) |
Equipment: | Worldview, MyMaps, X-Ray Spectrometer, Atmosph. Tomography |
Configuration: | |
Propulsion: | ? |
Power: | 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 years (required 1 year) |
Mass: | 284 kg |
Orbit: | 475 km × 475 km, 97.3° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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Clark (SSTI 2) | - | cancelled | Va SLC-6 | Athena-1 |