Surfsat 1

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship SATellite

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General

Designation	23711 / 95060B
Launch date	4 Nov 1995
Country of origin	Canada
Mission	Scientific
Perigee/Apogee	934/1494 km
Inclination	100.6°
Period	109 min
Launch vehicle	Delta 2 #229
Mass at launch	55 kg

Surfsat is bolted to Delta's second stage. It has its own solar cells and is not electricaly dependent of Delta.

Surfsat will be used as a test vehicle for NASA, supporting deep space communications research and training of tracking station personnel at NASA's Deep Space Network. The Deep Space Network transponders will operate in Ka-band at 32 GHz (atmospheric studies). The VLBI transponders (X- and Ku-band) will enable testing of ground equipment for VSOP (Japan) and Radioastron (Russian project).

Designed by Caltech undergraduates with the help of JPL.

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External resources

http://sgra.jpl.nasa.gov/html_surfsat/SURFSATHomePage.html

sat-index articles

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