The Navy GEOSAT mission radar altimeter spacecraft undergoes final testing at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The space vehicle will be launched into an 800 kilometer, 108 degree inclination, circular orbit by the Air Force using a General Dynamics/Convair Atlas E launch vehicle and a Fairchild Space Company orbit insertion stage
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Laurel
State: Maryland (MD)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/01/1995
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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