Please make a donation to support Gunter's Space Page.
Thank you very much for visiting Gunter's Space Page. I hope that this site is useful and informative for you.
If you appreciate the information provided on this site, please consider supporting my work by making a simple and secure donation via PayPal. Please help to run the website and keep everything free of charge. Thank you very much.

NRL-PL 176

NRL-PL 176 [NRO]

NRL-PL 176 was a still classified experiment by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) mounted as a piggy-back payload on the aft rack of an Agena-D stage, which deployed several other satellites.

Nation: USA
Type / Application: Technology
Operator: Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Contractors: Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
Equipment: ?
Configuration: Instruments mounted on Agena-D stage
Propulsion:
Power: Batteries
Lifetime:
Mass:
Orbit: 905 km × 938 km, 70.01°
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
NRL-PL 176 1969-082B 30.09.1969 Va SLC-1W Thorad-SLV2G Agena-D with Poppy 6A, Poppy 6B, Poppy 6C, Poppy 6D, Timation 2, Tempsat 2, SOICAL Cone, SOICAL Cylinder, Weston

Cite this page: