PARTIAL LIST OF SPACECRAFT
TESTED BY ADL
Since 1980, ADL has tested nearly every nutationally unstable (Inertia ratio less than one) spacecraft launched on a Delta II rocket with a spinning third stage. For many of these programs, tank baffles were designed and tested to increase the nutational time constant.
Insat 1-A, Ford Aerospace
Eurostar, British Aerospace
KuBand, RCA
Hipparcos, British Aerospace
Intelsat NV-A, Hughes
(to establish a comparison to air-bearing and flight data)
Italsat, Selenia Spazio
Classified, Hughes
Inmarsat-2, British Aerospace
Generic, RCA (to establish a comparison to air-bearing data)
USSB, RCA
Series 7000, General Electric
Research project, Hughes (Free-flying model rocket to study slag-induced PAM-nutation anomaly)
Geotail, NASA Goddard Flight Center
Intelsat 8, Martin Marietta
Telstar 4, Martin Marietta
Series 7000, Martin Marietta
Asiasat, Martin Marietta
Mars Global Surveyor, Lockheed Martin
Mars 98, Lockheed Martin
Deep Space 1, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stardust, Lockheed Martin
Mars 2001 Orbiter, Lockheed Martin
Star-2, Orbital Sciences
Geolite, TRW
Mercury Messenger, Aerojet
Pluto New Horizons, Johns Hopkins APL
Classified, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Deep Impact, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Dawn, Orbital Sciences
LADEE, Nasa Ames
TOP: Final preparations on Mercury Messenger prior to launch. Photo: NASA
BOTTOM: NASA artist rendering of Geotail, a satellite observing the Earth's magnetosphere.
ADL provided testing services for both of these spacecraft.