Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft
- Summary
- Launched in 1969, Tacsat (Tactical Communications Satellite) was designed to improve the US military's ability to communicate with its forces on land, sea, or air. Tacsat's main feature was a set of large, powerful antennas. The strong signals they generated meant that military units required a relatively small antenna to received communications--a valuable feature for geographically dispersed or mobile forces.
- Tacsat also was used extensively in the Apollo program to assist with coordinating ships and aircraft in the Pacific Ocean during the recovery of returning space capsules.
- Hughes Aircraft donated this 1/24 scale model of a Tacsat satellite to the Museum in 1975.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hughes Aircraft Co.
- Inventory Number
- A19750772000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Uncrewed Spacecraft & Parts
- Materials
- Plastics, copper alloy, ferrous alloy (steel), white metal plating, paint, cadmium plating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 38.1 × 12.1 × 14cm (1 ft. 3 in. × 4 3/4 in. × 5 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- One World Connected
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19750772000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv92cfd697f-f420-4c2b-9cb4-ba2a212b278f
