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Space commemorative cover
or Space Cover.

the flag of USA
Cosmodrome / Location : USA

Date of Cancellation: Feb. 24, 1979
Event Type : Launch
Launch Pad / Location : USA Vandenberg SFB (CA)
Manned / Robotic Mission : Robotic
Mission Objective/Type : Experimental / Science
 SCIENCE 

ou?/where?: au sol - ground
autographe?: non - none

Description : Vandenberg post stamp and Solwind satellite.
The Space Test Program (STP) P78-1 mission was designed to obtain scientific data from earth and sun-oriented experiments. The spacecraft was sun-oriented and had its spin axis perpendicular to both the orbital plane and the satellite-sun line. The instrumentation consisted of
- a gamma-ray spectrometer and particle detectors,
- a white-light coronagraph and an extreme-ultraviolet heliograph,
- a solar X-ray spectrometer and spectroheliograph,
- an extreme-ultraviolet spectrometer,
- a high-latitude particle spectrometer,
- an X-ray monitor, and
- a preliminary aerosol monitor.

Keyword(s) :
#Earth,
#Satellite,
#Sun,
#X-rays,

This is OUTSIDE of a Space Revue.

Last modified: 07/24/2015 @ 09h02

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SOLWIND (STP P78-1) (SATELLITE) · ATLAS F

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