Minisat 01

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General

Designation	24779 / 97018A
Launch date	4 Apr 1997
Country of origin	Spain
Mission	Scientific: UV Astronomy
Perigee/Apogee	562 / 581 km
Inclination	151° (inclination record)
Period	96.1 min
Launch vehicle	Pegasus #17
Launch site	Canary Islands

3 experiments are onboard: EURD (a spectrograph that will study the background radiation in the extreme ultraviolet range), LEGRI (will study the low energy gamma radiation from astronomic sources) and CPLM (to study the behaviour of liquid bridges in microgravity conditions).

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End of life

Decay

26 Feb 2002

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External resources

http://www.laeff.esa.es/~trapero/EURD/satellite.html

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	CASA
Platform	Minisat 0
Mass at launch	195 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	2.487 x 2.554 x 1.170 m
Solar array	4 panels, 45 W per panel
Stabilization	1 axis
DC power
Design lifetime

Data can be stored onboard (32 Mb) and transmitted at 1 Mbps through a 5 W S-band link
Transmits on 2.223 GHz

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