Fedsat

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General

Designation	27598 / 02056B
Launch date	14 Dec 2002
Country of origin	Australia
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	800 km, sunsynchronous, 10:30 pm ascending node
Inclination	98.7°
Period	100.9 min
Launch vehicle	H2A #11

Cost: $11 million. First domestically-built satellite for Australia. Satellite is fully functional. Managed by Australia's DoD.

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End of life

Out of service	Sep 2007
Cause	failure (well after expected EOL)
Decay

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External resources

http://www.crcss.csiro.au/

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	SSTL (previously was SIL (subsidiary of Spacedev, UK-based))
Platform	MicroSIL
Mass at launch	50 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	58 cm cube
Solar array
Stabilization	2.5 m boom
DC power
Design lifetime	3 years

The satellite will be operated and integrated by Cooperative Research Centre on Satellite Systems, a group comprising Australian universities, firms and government entities.

It will carry a GPS receiver; the The NewMag magnetometer (a sensitive device for measuring the strength of the Earth's magnetic field; data to be shared with NASDA), a Ka-band transponder; a UHF communications payload, a baseband processor that provides on-board computer processing of the communications payloads; and a commemorative CD-ROM carrying messages from the Australian and Japanese public.

The High Performance Computing (HPC) 1 payload uses reconfigurable computing technology; its the first use in space. Such computers permit changes of their physical circuits via software control and new physical circuits can be installed in such a computer by remote control. The HPC 1 features reconfigurable radiation tolerant FPGA's from Xilinx.

S-band downlink, 1 Mbps, 2W

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