User:SpacePod9/Delta 180

The Delta 180 mission, which carried the Vector Sum Experiment payload, was an American military Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test and the first launch of a payload for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program.

SDIO Star Wars

Deliberately crashed two satellites into each other

For SCIENCE!!! (mainly military science)

NASA

 * https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1986-069A
 * https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTrajectory.action?id=1986-069A


 * https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19990041784/downloads/19990041784.pdf (p. 50,53)