Start Date
4-1986 8:00 AM
Description
A paper entitled "Development of an Experiment of Opportunity Test Pay load for the Space Transportation system" was presented at the 17th Space Congress in 1980. Over the next 5 years and through the gauntlets of budget crunches, technical snags, administrative reorganizations, and changes in name, the basic concept survived and matured into the Spartan program. Spartan 1 was launched aboard STS 51G in June 1985. The final design and operating concepts are discussed, along with results of its first flight.
Experiments of Opportunity Payloads Revisited
A paper entitled "Development of an Experiment of Opportunity Test Pay load for the Space Transportation system" was presented at the 17th Space Congress in 1980. Over the next 5 years and through the gauntlets of budget crunches, technical snags, administrative reorganizations, and changes in name, the basic concept survived and matured into the Spartan program. Spartan 1 was launched aboard STS 51G in June 1985. The final design and operating concepts are discussed, along with results of its first flight.
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