Polar BEAR (P87-1 / STP), a U.S. Air Force Space Test Program satellite launched on a Scout G-1 from Vandenberg SLC-5. Built from a refurbished Transit-O 17 bus, it studied auroral imaging and polar ionospheric effects on military communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 118 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 17 Scout G-1 flights
- Date and time
- 14 November 1986, 00:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout G-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-088
- Launches in 1986
- 94th of 110
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