17070 - POLAR BEAR

The Polar BEAR spacecraft (also known as STP P87-A) is a modified TRANSIT spacecraft which carried experiments intended to provide remote-sensing and in situ measurements of physical quantities likely to provide insight into the dynamics of plasma-density irregularity formation in the high-latitude ionosphere. BEAR is an acronym for Beacon Experiment and Auroral Research.

Alternate Names

Beacon Experiment and Auroral Research
NNSS 30170
STP P87-A

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 1986-11-13
Launch Vehicle: Scout
Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, United States
Mass: 113.93 kg