Mug measures 3.75 inches high by 3 inches in diameter.
CONDITION: Like new – unused. Cabinet kept. One owner.
MSX (Midcourse Space
Experiment)
Mission type: EO
Agency: DoD (USA)
Mission status: Mission
complete
Launch date: 24 Apr 1996
End of life date: 01 Jul
2008
Measurement domain: Atmosphere,
Gravity and Magnetic Fields
Measurement category: Multi-purpose
imagery (ocean), Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements, Atmospheric
Humidity Fields, Lightning Detection
Instruments: Multi-band
UV/VIS Spectrometer (ACE), TDP, HF Beacon Transmitter
Instrument type: High
resolution optical imagers, Magnetic field, Other, Communications, Data
collection, Lightning sensors
The MSX satellite was an observatory-class observation
platform and global surveillance system of the US DoD; it was funded and
managed by BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) with JHU/APL (Johns
Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory) of Laurel, MD as the prime
contractor, spacecraft integrator, and operator of the mission. MSX represented
the first system demonstration in space of technology to identify and track
ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase. The suite of optical sensors
cover the spectrum from the far ultraviolet (110 nm) through the very-long-wave
infrared (28 µm) spectrum.
The primary objectives of MSX were to detect, acquire
and track targets and to discriminate lethal from nonlethal objects (detailed
characterization and modeling of target objects and their associated
phenomenology of the terrestrial, Earth-limb, and celestial backgrounds). The
information gathered by the MSX spacecraft helped fill significant spatial,
spectral, and temporal gaps that existed in space environment models.
In addition to meeting the needs of the BMDO, the MSX
spacecraft provided a civilian benefit owing to its multispectral and
hyperspectral capabilities. Data collected from BMDO-related experiments were
be used to perform environmental studies of the Earth.
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was
set up in 1984. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the Star Wars
program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United
States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental
ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
Box
dimensions: 12 x 6 x 6”
Box
weight: 1 lb, 6.8 oz.
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