Stpsat

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General

Designation	30775 / 07006D
Launch date	9 Mar 2007
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	558/561 km
Inclination	35.4°
Period	95.8 min
Launch vehicle	Atlas 5 #9

For the USAF Space Test Program (STP). Fully functional after in-orbit checkout.

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End of life

Decay

8 Nov 2023

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Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	Aeroastro
Platform
Mass at launch	156 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power
Design lifetime	> 1 years

Downlink of the Cosmic instrument: 150.012, 400.032 & 1066.752 MHz

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Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER)

A high-resolution ultraviolet spectrometer based on the new optical technique known as Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy (SHS). SHS facilitates the design of low mass, low power, high throughput spectrometers for space-based remote sensing.

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Computerised Ionospheric Tomography Receiver in Space (CITRIS)

To investigate irregularities that affect propagation of satellite-to-ground links for GPS and communications.

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MEPSI

Micro-Electro-Mechanical (MEMS)-based PicoSat Inspector (MEPSI) is a miniature free-flyer that will be released to demonstrate MEMS utility and related microsystems for proximity operations.

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