Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.

P78-1 or Solwind was a United States satellite launched aboard an Atlas F rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 24 1979. The satellite operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13 1985 to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile.

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