SAC A

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General

Designation	25550 / 98069B
Launch date	14 Dec 1998
Country of origin	Argentina
Mission	Scientific
Perigee/Apogee	378/395 km
Inclination	51.6°
Period	92.3 min
Launch vehicle	STS 88

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

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End of life

Decay

25 Oct 1999

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External resources

http://www.conae.gov.ar/sac-a/sac_a.html

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	INVAP (Bariloche, AR)
Platform
Mass at launch	60 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

Downlink: 242 MHz
Uplink: 401.520 MHz

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