SARAL & Rideshares

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

12:31:00

Monday February 25, 2013

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Launch Notes

TUGSAT-1 and UniBRITE were the first Austrian satellites.

TUGSAT-1

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TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

7 kilograms

UniBRITE-1

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UniBRITE-1 is, along with TUGSAT-1, one of the first two Austrian satellites to be launched. Along with TUGSAT, it operates as part of the BRIght Target Explorer constellation of satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

7 kilograms

STRaND-1

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STRaND-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator 1) is a 3U CubeSat developed by Surrey University's Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

7 kilograms

SARAL

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SARAL or Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa is a cooperative altimetry technology mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and CNES (Space Agency of France).

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

407 kilograms

Sapphire

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Sapphire is a Canadian space surveillance satellite which was launched in 2013. Sapphire was constructed by MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates (MDA) based on an SSTL-150 bus produced by Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and an optical payload produced by COM DEV International.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

148 kilograms

NEOSSat

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The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian microsatellite using a 15-cm aperture f/5.88 Maksutov telescope (similar to that on the MOST spacecraft), with 3-axis stabilisation giving a pointing stability of ~2 arcseconds in a ~100-second exposure. It is funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and will search for interior-to-Earth-orbit (IEO) asteroids, at between 45 and 55 degree solar elongation and +40 to -40 degrees ecliptic latitude.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

74 kilograms

AAUSAT3

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AAUSAT3 is the third CubeSat built and operated by students from Aalborg University in Denmark.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

1 kilograms

Rocket

Active
PSLV-CA

Active Since 2007

Indian Space Research Organisation logo

Agency

ISRO

Price

$21.00 million

Rocket

Height: 44m

Liftoff Thrust

4,847 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.2m

Height: 8.3m

Stages

4

Launch Site

First Launch Pad

Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Fastest Turnaround

25 days 5 hours

Stats

PSLV


23rd

Mission

1st

Mission of 2013

Indian Space Research Organisation


38th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2013

2013


10th

Orbital launch attempt