Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/06/2019

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00:01:43 1 Mission
00:04:23 2 Payloads
00:15:20 3 Bus characteristics
00:16:19 4 Orbit characteristics
00:17:07 5 Liftoff postponements
00:20:06 6 See also



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The Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS), not to be confused with the Argos System which employs mostly NOAA satellites, was launched on 23 Feb 1999 carrying nine payloads for research and development missions by nine separate researchers. The mission terminated on 31 July 2003.
ARGOS was launched from SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB, CA, atop a Boeing Delta II (7920-10). Construction of the spacecraft bus and integration of the satellite's payloads was accomplished by Boeing at their Seal Beach, CA facility.  The program was funded and led by the DoD's Space Test Program (STP) as mission P91-1 (the first STP mission contract awarded in 1991).
The $220M mission was operated by Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Test and Evaluation Directorate (then Space Development and Test Wing, now SMC's Advanced Systems and Development Directorate) from their RDT&E Support Complex (RSC) at Kirtland AFB, NM.  ARGOS was the first mission operated 100% from the new state-of-the-art, commercial-off-the-shelf Kirtland facility; all previous SMC satellite missions had been operated in total or at least in part from the preceding center at Onizuka AFS, CA.