SAC A

Satellite de Aplicaciones Cientifico

Designation	25550 / 98069B
Launch date	04 Dec 1998 Deployed from STS-88 on 14 December 1998
Launch site	KSC, LC39A
Launch vehicle	Shuttle STS-88
Mission	Technology, Earth observation
Earth orbit:
Perigee/Apogee	383/400 km
Inclination	51.58°
Period	92.38 min

Sac-A satellite ejected from STS-88

SAC A is a technological payload: it has an experimental remote sensing satellite and a tracking device to follow a whale

Prime contractor	INVAP (Bariloche, AR)
Platform
Operator	CONAE (Argentine National Commission on Space Activities)
Mass at launch	60 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array	None, solar cells
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

Downlink: 242 MHz
Uplink: 401.520 MHz

Decay

25 Oct 1999

The SAC-A satellite is an Argentine payload which carries an experimental remote sensing camera and a marine life science experiment consisting of a GPS receiver which will track signals from a GPS-equipped whale. The 60 kg satellite was build by INVAP of Bariloche for CONAE, the Argentine space agency. It will be ejected from an HMDA canister in the payload bay.
The SAC-A and Mightysat satellites were ejected from the payload bay on December 14 and 15, 1998.

Ref: #3(SD318), #7(JR380), #16, #78a - update: 11.02.11