Talk:LACE (satellite)

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(Found from Brilliant Pebbles, a short mention but a good secondary non-Navy source for the Nikha launch. Still DoD (Missile Defense Agency) though)
Most sources/links below this signature will come from what I've got in my sandbox SpacePod9 (talk) 08:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some info about the booms for LACE and other satellites specifically. The article claims another satellite (DODGE) launched in 1967 had booms of 46m, while LACE's were only 45.7m, however, the former number is a rounding error based on the ref this article cites, Mobley 1967 (https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.1968-460), where its stated the booms were 150ft long, the same as LACE. DODGE isn't mentioned by Amato in his history, since it seems DODGE was actually developed by the Johns Hopkins APL. SpacePod9 (talk) 09:29, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good mentions for SAS & MIT use w/ AMOS. SpacePod9 (talk) 06:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NYT Article. SpacePod9 (talk) 07:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And another (NYT/AP) SpacePod9 (talk) 07:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Defense Daily / Military Space Articles

Added from my sandbox. SpacePod9 (talk) 04:59, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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LACE being serviced before launch
LACE being serviced before launch
"The Delta's thundering ascent marked the first time the Defense Department purchased a rocket and launch services from a private company instead of NASA."
    • ALT1: ... that the 150 ft (46m) long retractable booms on the LACE satellite (pictured) were the longest ever put in space at the time of launch?
    • Source: Amato, Ivan. "13". Taking Technology Higher The Naval Center for Space Technology and the Making of the Space Age (p. 252)

https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Portals/38/PDF%20Files/Taking_Technology_Higher_Amato.pdf "In the initial days and weeks after the LACE launch, he and colleagues spent many hours at the Blossom Point ground station in southern Maryland checking the spacecraft’s systems, which included, among other superlatives, the longest retractable

booms that had ever flown in space"
    • ALT2: ... that the Ultraviolet Plume Instrument onboard the LACE satellite (pictured) tracked rocket plumes from space for the United States's Star Wars program?
    • Source: Naval Research Laboratory (October 1, 1991). "LACE" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Washington DC: Naval Research Laboratory. Retrieved April 4, 2024.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA339075.pdf (p. 2): "SDIO [Strategic Defense Initiative Organization] began discussing the addition of an instrument to take video images of rocket plumes by their UV emission."

Images on pp. 20-22, some color versions at https://web.archive.org/web/20070916140820/http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/uvpi.html, or on Commons
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    • Comment: Hook: technically LACE was launched alongside another "Star Wars" satellite as a dual payload on the same rocket, however, LACE was deployed first so it still was the "first" satellite launched/deployed in the mission

AltHook: I would love to say that these were the longest booms *ever* deployed in space, but I haven't found any up-to-date sources or papers stating that.
AltHook2: "Star Wars" is the popular nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative program

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SpacePod9 (talk) 08:47, 6 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General eligibility:

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Overall: main, ALT1 and ALT2 all verified Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:00, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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