Jonathan's Space Pages
Launch 1962-F02: Ablestar 010 (Composite 1)
Jonathan's bibliography
What's Happening?
Jonathan's Space Report (Current Issue)
Jonathan's Space Report (Next Issue)
Jonathan's Space Report (Back Issues)
General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects
The Deep Space Catalog V1.0
Organizations Catalog
Orbital and Suborbital Launch Database
Other Lists:
Master Orbital Launch Log
Master Satellite List
Space Launch Photo Archive
Geostationary satellite log
Geostationary satellite bus log
Names of satellites
List of largest satellite reentries
List of largest satellite reentries
List of largest satellite deorbits
Air launched satellite attempts
Launch sites
Where does space begin? - and other schemas
Karman line paper
Partial success launch vehicle scoring rules
Statistical analyses
Statistical figures
Space activities 2014
Space activities 2015
Space activities 2016
Space activities 2017
Space activities 2018
The Globalization of Space, 2016
Studies of individual countries
India in Space (2004)
[PDF]
[Tables]
China in Space (2004)
Part1
Part2
China Satellite Update 2014 (PDF)
Iran satellite launches (2019)
[PDF]
Space Policy: UN Registration Convention
Unregistered Satellites (1994, last updated 2015)
UN data on US Military Satellites (1995)
Statement on errors in US compliance with UN resolution
United Nations Registry of Space Objects (2015 Update)
(a critical digest of the information in the
official UN Registry
; see especially the
Editorial Notes
.)
Paper on UN Satellite Registration compliance, 2018
US secret satellites
Wikileaks data on NRO satellites (2013)
Declassified Vandenberg AFB launch reports
Paper on US spy sats, Quest (1995) [PDF]
Images of declassified early NRO satellites
Index of 'Operations' numbers for DoD satellites
Notes on GAMBIT-3 missions (2018) [PDF]
Historical satellite TLE orbital elements (up to 2005)
Historical orbital elements
Scanned TLEs from Sven Grahn, 1977-1990
Human spaceflight data.
List of space travelers
List of human spaceflight launches
Table of spacewalks and depressurized activities
Orlan spacesuit history
US spacesuit serial numbers
(2006)
Non-human astronauts
Papers on space history topics:
X-15 History (Quest magazine, 1994) [PDF]
IUE Obituary (JSR 300, 1996)
NRL Satellites (JBIS, 1997) [PDF]
CSG and my trip to Kourou (1998)
Chandra launch (1999)
Centaur Launch Log
(2000)
SIRTF's Orbit
(2003)
CANYON mission profile (2003)
(JSR501)
Shuttle cargo bay payloads (2006)
Discovery of the South Atlantic Anomaly
(2007)
The Explorer Program
(2009)
Kappa and Lambda: Japan's first steps into space [PDF]
(2010)
Retconning the movie 'Gravity'
(2013)
Rockets for Extrasolar X-rays [PDF]
(2013)
Spacecraft speed records
(2016)
Assorted spacecraft images/diagrams
Presentations on space history and policy topics:
Space talks
Space historiography
Geoff Perry and the Kettering Group (2002)
Space in Countdown comic
The Great Galactic Ghoul
1970s space-related stamp collection
Notes on space debris topics
Images of some GEO debris objects (2003)
FY1C, 2007
Kosmos-482 decay rates
The Spacecraft Graveyard
Hitomi (2016 Mar)
Assorted plots from my twitter posts, 2018
Falcon 9 second stage status, 2018
Iridium first gen reentries, 2019
Mirrors of other people's data:
Sandia News from Martin Pfieffer
LV photos from Peter Hunter
Scans of historical data
Spaceflight article on ISEE-3/ICE to NASM
Explorer 6 launch report part 2 [PDF]
Jonathan's History of Spaceflight
(a few extracts)
Space links
Thor 311/Ablestar 010
1962 Jan 24
(left) Art from a first day cover showing the payloads
Launch Result
Failed to reach orbit.
Launched Objects
COSPAR
JCAT
Name
AltName
Owner
Mass/kg
1962-F02
F00192
Dyno SV4
SR 4A
NRL
25
1962-F02
F00193
Lofti 2A
Lofti 2
NRL
27
1962-F02
F00196
SURCAL I
SURCAL I
NRL
4
1962-F02
F00195
Injun 2
Injun 2
SUI
25
1962-F02
F00194
SECOR I
SECOR I
Army ERDL
16
1962-F02
F00191
Ablestar 010
AB-010
AF
600?
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