JAWSAT

{{Short description|American Military Satellite}}

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The Joint Air Force-Weber State University Satellite (JAWSAT) is an American military mini-satellite launched aboard a Minotaur rocket on January 27, 2000 from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California.{{cite web |url=http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast04nov99_1/ |title=Ham operators will get to help NASA with space experiment. |author= |date=4 November 1999 |publisher=NASA Science |access-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093728/http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast04nov99_1/ |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |df=mdy-all }} After its own launch, JAWSAT deployed four microsatellites: FalconSAT-1, OCSE, OPAL, and ASUSat.{{cite web |url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx555.html |title=SPACEWARN Bulletin Number 555 |author= |date=1 February 2000 |website=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive |publisher=NASA |access-date=7 April 2014}} JAWSAT also carried NASA's Plasma Experiment Satellite Test (PEST).

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