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FAST


Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, also called SMEX 2

General


Designation 24285 / 96049A
Launch date 21 Aug 1996
Country of origin United States
Mission Scientific: magnetosphere study
Perigee/Apogee 350/4200 km
Inclination 83°
Period 133 min
Launch vehicle Pegasus #13

The spacecraft will probe the physical processes that produce auroras and add signifcantly to the understanding of our near-Earth space environment.

External resources


http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/fast/

http://plasma2.ssl.berkeley.edu/fast/
http://www510.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/fastpg.htm
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/fast/Welcome.html
sat-index articles


Technical data



Specifications


Prime contractor  
Platform  
Mass at launch 191 kg
Payload mass 51 kg
Dimension octogonal
Solar array  
Stabilization spin stabilized, 12 rpm
DC power 52 W
Design lifetime 1 year

Telemetry: 2215.0 MHz (realtime: 4 kbps, playback: 900/1500/2250 kbps)
Command: 2039.65 MHz (realtime: 2 kbps)

Instruments:
Electric Field Experiment: to provide data on plasma density and electron temperature
Magnetic Field Experiment: 2 magnetometers
Time-of-Flight Energy Angle Mass Spectrograph (TEAMS)
Electrostatic Analyzers (ESA): measurements from 3 eV to 30 KeV

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