Facts and figures
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Launch: | 2 November 2009 (auxiliary passenger of SMOS) |
Launcher: | Rockot |
Launch site: | Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia |
Orbit: | Altitude between 700 km and 800 km, Sun-synchronous, Inclination 98.298 degrees |
Attitude control: | Sun-pointing with automatic manoeuvring |
Nominal life: | 2 years |
Size: | 600 x 700 x 850 mm |
Mass: | 130 kg |
Power consumption: | 53–86 watts |
RF: | S-band, 64 kbit/s uplink; 1 Mbit/s downlink |
Mission cost: | €18 million (excluding launcher and operations) |
Ground station, mission control and processing/archiving: | Redu (Belgium) |
Data download to: | Redu (Belgium) and Svalbard (Norway) |
Number of new technologies to be tested: | 17 |
Number of scientific experiments: | 4 |
Developed by: | Consortium led by QinetiQ Space (formerly Verhaert) nv of Belgium, a subsidiary of QinetiQ (GB) |