Way back in 1960, the Transit 1B satellite was successfully despun about a week after launch (note the catalogue number gap between C and D below). Also released into orbit along with the main payload was a dummy subsatellite to test the idea of piggyback launches. Altogether four objects were catalogued: 1960-003A 30 Thor AbleStar rocket body 1960-003B 31 Transit 1B 1960-003C 33 GRAB dummy subsatellite 1960-003D 99 Transit 1B despin weight My question is, since despin weights come in pairs, whatever happened to the other despin weight? Is this another one of those NNA situations? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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