NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Deimos 2 & Others

Launch Time
Thu Jun 19, 2014 19:11 UTC

The BRITE-Montréal satellite could not be separated due to an uknown error. All other satellites could be successfully placed in orbit.

Rocket

Dnepr
Image Credit: Yuzhnoye
Kosmotras
Status: Retired
Price: $29.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,166 kN
Payload to LEO: 4,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 500 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 34.3 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.0 m
Fairing Height: 7.45 m

Mission Details

Deimos 2

Deimos 2 is a small Earth observation satellite, which carries a 75-centimeter-resolution imager provided by Satrec Initiative of South Korea. It has a 12-kilometer-diameter swath and be able to swivel 30 degrees off nadir to each side, and 45 degrees in the event of a special order.

Spain’s government-owned Inta performed satellite integration of the 300 kilogram Deimos-2. Deimos’ corporate parent, Elecnor of Madrid, has agreed to underwrite much of the 60 million euros in anticipated Deimos-2 costs, a figure that includes the satellite’s construction, launch and insurance. Spain’s Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade is picking up 20 percent of Deimos’ costs

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 310.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

KazEOSat 2

The Republic of Kazakhstan is utilizing the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite technologies from EADS Astrium and its subsidiary SSTL to create a national system which supports its government with resource monitoring, resource management, land-use mapping and environmental monitoring information for policy and decision making. The new ERSSS (Earth Remote Sensing Satellite System) includes a high resolution mapping spacecraft and a wide-swath medium resolution multispectral mapping spacecraft implemented by a team comprising Astrium and SSTL.

The SSTL KazEOSat 2 satellite, formerly known as MRES (Medium Resolution Earth Observation Satellite), delivers wide swath multispectral imagery of the Kazakh territory and other parts of the Earth. It weighs 177 kg and have the capability to image and downlink one million square kilometers per day, with exceptionally agile off-pointing capabilities for this class of satellite.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 177.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

TabletSat-Avrora, BugSat-1, SaudiSat-4 & UniSat-6

TabletSat-Avrora : The Russian start-up company SPUTNIX designed and built the TabletSat-Aurora (ТаблетСат-Аврора) technology demonstrator and earth observing satellite. The spacecraft is fitted with panchromatic photo- and video- camera operating in 430 – 950 nm spectral band as the primary payload to perform imagery of Earth surface with a ground resolution of 15 m and a swath width of 47 km.

BugSat-1 : BugSat 1 is a technology demonstration mission for the Aleph-1 (ÑuSat) constellation of small earth observation satellites designed by the Argentinean company Satellogic S.A.

SaudiSat-4 : SaudiSat 4 is a Saudi-Arabian technology demonstration satellite developed by the KACST. SaudiSat 4 features a joint NASA Ames and KACST experiment for the control of charge build-up on free-floating test masses critical to the operation of gravitational reference sensors on drag-free spacecraft. Essentially, the GRS is an extremely accurate accelerometer that allows its host spacecraft to fly in an orbit defined solely by gravity, and not be affected by solar pressure and atmospheric drag. Its performance is limited in part by the charge build-up on its free-floating test mass.

UniSat-6 : UniSat 6 is a technology satellite built at GAUSS Srl. It is intended to test customer equipment under space conditions and to deploy four cubesats in orbit. Unisat 6 deployed the cubesats TigriSat, Lemur 1, ANTELSAT and AeroCube 6 from two Pico-Orbital Deployers and one PEPPOD.

Payloads: 4
Total Mass: 173.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Hodoyoshi 3 & 4, AprizeSat 9 & 10, BRITE-Toronto, BRITE-Montréal & Perseus-M1 & M2

Hodoyoshi 3 & 4 : Hodoyoshi 3 & 4 are experimental earth-observing micro-satellite built by the University of Tokyo. Hodoyoshi 3 has a 40 m ground resolution, and Hodoyoshi 4 has a 5 m ground resolution.

AprizeSat 9 & 10 : LatinSat, later renamed AprizeSat, is a constellation of small Low-Earth-Orbit satellites (64 satellites planned) to achieve a global communication system of data transmission and fixed and mobile asset tracking and monitoring (GMPCS). The satellites also carry experimental payloads.

BRITE-Toronto & BRITE-Montréal : CanX-3 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiments), also known as BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground-based observations, and it is packaged inside a CanX-class nanosatellite.

Perseus-M1 & M2 : The Perseus-M satellites are small maritime surveillance satellites developed by Canopus Systems US, an US American independent affiliate of the Russian Dauria Aerospace. The Perseus-M satellites are built as pathfinder satellites to the CubeSat (6U) standard and feature an Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver provided by LuxSpace similar to Dauria's DX 1 prototype satellite. Originally an imaging payload was planned.

Payloads: 8
Total Mass: 182.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Flock-1c (x11), POPSAT-HIP 1, QB50P-1 & 2, PACE, Duchifat-1, NanosatC-Br1, DTUSat-2 & PolyITAN

Flock-1c (x11) : The Flock earth observing constellation built and operated by Planet Labs (formerly Cosmogia Inc.) consists of numerous triple CubeSats. The Flock-1 and Flock-1b constellations consist of each 28 satellites in medium inclination orbits. The Flock-1c constellation features 11 satellites in longer lived polar orbits.

POPSAT-HIP 1 : POPSAT-HIP 1 is a triple cubesat built by Microspace Rapid Pte Ltd., Singapore. The spacecraft is to demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system on a Cubesat Class Nano-satellite.

QB50P-1 & 2 : QB50P are two precursor satellites for the QB50 project, which demonstrates the possibility of launching a network of 50 CubeSats built by Universities Teams all over the world as a primary payload on a low-cost launch vehicle to perform first-class science in the largely unexplored lower thermosphere.

PACE : PACE (Platform for Attitude Control Experiments) is a cubesat project of the National Cheng Kung University of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The main purpose of the PACE mission is to conduct attitude control experiments.

Duchifat-1 : The Israeli student satellite Duchifat-1 is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed and built by students of secondary schools at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC). It is built to the 1U CubeSat standard.

NanosatC-Br1 : NanoSatC-Br 1 is the first CubeSat project of Brazil, developed at the Southern Regional Space Research Center. The mission has three objectives in the fields of science, technology validation, and academic i.e., student involvement in all mission phases.

DTUSat-2 : DTUSat 2 (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Satellite 2) is a Danish 1U CubeSat to demonstrate the tracking of birds from space.

PolyITAN : PolyITAN-1 is a CubeSat designed and built by the National Technical University of Ukraine – KPI in cooperation with the Ukrainian HAM radio community.

Payloads: 19
Total Mass: 68.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 370/13, Yasny Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2014

34th orbital launch attempt

Dnepr

20th mission
1st mission of 2014
19th successful mission
13th consecutive successful mission