Polar BEAR, short for Polar Beacon Experiment and Auroral Research was a 1986 U.S. military space mission. Also known as STP P87-1 or STP P87-A, the craft was built for the Air Force by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).

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