![]() Illustration of the FASTSAT microsatellite | |
Mission type | Technology |
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Operator | NASA / MSFC |
COSPAR ID | 2010-062D |
SATCAT no. | 37225 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | Dynetics[1] |
Launch mass | 500.0 kilograms (1,102.3 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 November 2010, 01:25:00 | UTC
Rocket | Minotaur IV/HAPS |
Launch site | Kodiak Pad 1 |
Contractor | Orbital Sciences |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Eccentricity | 0.0017024 |
Perigee altitude | 626 kilometres (389 mi)[2] |
Apogee altitude | 653 kilometres (406 mi)[2] |
Inclination | 71.9 degrees[2] |
Period | 97.52 minutes[2] |
RAAN | 161.1230 degrees |
Argument of perigee | 34.5423 degrees |
Epoch | 3 December 2010[2] |
Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite or FASTSAT, also known as US(PISA), Miniature Imager for Neutral Ionospheric atoms and Magnetosphereic electrons (MINI-ME), a Miniature Star Tracker (MST), and NanoSail-D2.
There were six experiments on the FASTSAT bus, including: