KazEOSat 2
Appearance
Mission type | Remote sensing |
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Operator | Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary (KGS) |
COSPAR ID | 2014-033A[1] |
SATCAT no. | 40010![]() |
Website | kazcosmos |
Mission duration | 3 years |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | SSTL-150 |
Manufacturer | EADS Astrium |
Launch mass | ~177 kilograms (390 lb) |
Dimensions | 700 by 800 by 900 millimetres (28 in × 31 in × 35 in) |
Power | 150 watts |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | June 19, 2014, 19:11 | UTC
Rocket | Dnepr |
Launch site | Dombarovsky 370/13 |
Contractor | Kosmotras |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Sun-Synchronous |
Perigee altitude | 611 kilometres (380 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 636 kilometres (395 mi) |
Inclination | 97.9 degrees |
Period | 97.1 minutes |
Epoch | 26 June 2014[2] |
KazEOSat is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite built for the Kazakhstan Gharysh Sapary under an agreement with EADS Astrium and SSTL, a satellite manufacturing companies in France and England, respectively. The earth observation satellite was designed and developed by EADS Astrium, and represent 11th launch of SSTL-150 bus, first launched in 2005.[3]
References
- ^ "KazEOSat 2 Gunters space page". Retrieved June 24, 2014.
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan. "SATCAT". Jonathan's Space Pages. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/sstl_150.htm
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