QSAT-EOS (Tsukushi)

Spacecraft nº:

Japanese spacecraft nº: 205

Launch data: Designation  40301 / 14070D Launch date  06 Nov 2014 - 07:35 UT Launch site  Do, LC-370/13 Launch vehicle  Dnepr Mission  Imaging Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  503 x 552 km Eccentricity   Inclination   97.47° Period  95.18 min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• The Tsukushi ('Horsetail'; also an old name for the Kyushu region) payload is also called QSAT-EOS: Kyushu Satellite for Earth Observation System Demonstration. The sastellite carries a CMOS camera with 4m res and 7 km swath, a magnetometer and an in-situ space debris detector, as well as a deployable 3-meter kapton sail used as a drag augmentation device.

Mission details:

• QSAT-EOS was launched piggy-back with a larger satellite and three other small satellites on a Dnepr rocket from the Yasni (Dombarovsky) cosmodrome on Nov.06, 2014.

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