JAWSAT

JAWSAT

The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. [http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast04nov99_1.htm] After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FALCONSAT, OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat. [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx555.html] JAWSAT also carried NASA's Plasma Experiment Satellite Test (PEST).


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