1st Stp-siv Spacecraft Completes Integration

摘要

Ball Aerospace & Technologies of Boulder, Colo., has finished assembling and is ready to begin testing a 120-kilogram satellite it is building for the U.S. Defense Department under its Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle (STP-SIV) program.rnBall, the STP-SIV prime contractor, said in an April 8 press release that environmental and operational testing would continue through August. The satellite is about the size of a two-drawer file cabinet and is expected to launch in February 2010 aboard a Minotaur 4 rocket.