Status
Failure
Rocket
Mission Details
SACI-2
The satellite weighed approximately 80 kg. It was a box approximately 60 cm long and 40 cm square, with a circular base plate and surrounded by a metal ring, both about 80 cm in diameter. Besides being a technology testbed, it carried four scientific payloads (PLASMEX, MAGNEX, OCRAS, and PHOTO), with a total weight of 10 kg, to investigate plasma bubbles in the geomagnetic field, airglow, and anomalous cosmic radiation fluxes. It was meant to circle the Earth on a circular orbit at 750 km altitude, inclined 17.5 ° from the Equator.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 80.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
VLS Pad, Alcântara Launch Center, Maranhão, Brazil
Stats
1999
71st orbital launch attempt
Brazilian Space Agency
2nd mission
1st mission of 1999
2nd failed mission
VLS-1
2nd mission
1st mission of 1999
2nd failed mission