PRISMA Target (Tango)

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Swedish spacecraft n°: 12

Launch data: Designation  36827 / 10028F Launch date  15 Jun 2010 - 14:42 UT Launch site  Yasniy (Dombarovsky) Launch vehicle  Dnepr-1 Mission  Government: Technology Development Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on Aug 12.23: Perigee / Apogee  723 x 787 km Eccentricity  4.14E-03 Inclination  98.28 deg Period  99.93 min

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Mission details:

• Demonstration of new technologies for automated formation-flying and rendezvous of spacecraft in orbit.
• PRISMA consists of 2 satellites, launched attached to each other. Tango separated from Mango 2010 Aug 11.744 and will recede different distances to Mango up to 100 km. At the end of the operations Tango will approach Mango to within several meters.
• Sweden's Prisma Target satellite, Tango, separated from the main Prisma satellite Mango on Aug 11, 2010 at 1751 UTC to begin formation flying experiments.
  Note that the European Space Agency's Cluster FM8 satellite is also called Tango. Prisma-Tango is in a 784 x 787 km x 98.3 deg orbit; Cluster-Tango is in a 1856 x 130941 km x 129.6 deg orbit, close to its dance partners Samba, Salsa and Rumba.