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Credit: Surrey
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) SNAP-1 Surrey Nanosatellite Applications Platform could accommodate 6-10 kg satellites complete with imagers and propulsion.

AKA: Nanosat SSTL;SNAP. Status: Operational 2000. First Launch: 2000-06-28. Last Launch: 2000-06-28. Number: 1 . Payload: 4.00 kg (8.80 lb). Gross mass: 12 kg (26 lb).

With rapid advances in electronics and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanosatellites can execute sophisticated and important missions. SSTL and the University of Surrey's academic team developed the Surrey Nanosatellite Applications Platform (SNAP) as a practical platform for this new missions.

SNAP supported missions of 6 to 12 kg total mass with payloads of up to 4 kg. Yet within this small package, SSTL offered propulsion, attitude determination and control, on-board computing and communications options typical of larger missions.

The structure of SNAP was provided by three sets of modular electronic housings ('NanoTrays') formed around a triangular central bay. This central bay could host attitude actuators, propulsion units or payloads.

Equipped with GPS orbit determination, three-axis attitude control and a micro propulsion system, the SNAP platform was tailored to constellation and swarm missions that demanded dozens of inexpensive, yet capable, satellites.

SSTL launched the first SNAP platform, SNAP-1 in 2000, demonstrating the SNAP concept on a successful remote-inspection and formation flying mission.



Family: Sun synchronous orbit, Technology, Technology satellite. Country: UK. Launch Vehicles: R-14, Kosmos 3, Kosmos 11K65M. Launch Sites: Plesetsk, Plesetsk LC132/1. Agency: Surrey. Bibliography: 2, 552, 554.
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2000 June 28 - . 10:37 GMT - . Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Complex: Plesetsk LC132/1. LV Family: R-14. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 11K65M.

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