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November 05, 2005

XSS-11

Experimental Satellite System-11 performs "proximity operations" and demonstrates it can track, approach and observe other satellites. A first step toward an orbital battlespace...

This is the first photograph taken by a microsatellite of another object in space that has ever been released to the general public. The object near the center is the upper stage of a Minotaur I rocket that was used to launch the Experimental Satellite System-11, commonly known as XSS-11. The photograph was taken by the digital "witness camera" aboard XSS-11, a dishwasher-size microsatellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 5, 2005 09:47 AM

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