SEDSAT
Spacecraft · USA
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Credit: NASA
American technology satellite. The SEDSAT micro-satellite was built by the Huntsville, Alabama chapter of SEDS (the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space). Technology satellite for SEDS, USA. Launched 1998.
SEDSAT had two amateur radio transponders and an earth imaging camera.
More at: SEDSAT.
Related
- Family
- Technology, Technology satellite
- Country
- USA
- Spacecraft
- SEDS
- Launch Vehicles
- Thor, Delta, Delta 2 7000, Delta 7326-9.5
- Projects
- STS
- Launch Sites
- Cape Canaveral, Cape Canaveral LC17A
- Agency
- NASA
- Bibliography
- 2.
- SEDSAT 1 - .
- Nation
- USA
- Agency
- Boeing
- Manufacturer
- SEDS
- Program
- STS
- Class
- Technology
- Type
- Navigation technology satellite
- Spacecraft
- SEDSAT
- USAF Sat Cat
- 25509
- COSPAR
- 1998-061B
- Apogee
- 1,050 km (650 mi)
- Perigee
- 544 km (338 mi)
- Inclination
- 31.40 deg
- Period
- 100.80 min. Following separation of the third stage and the primary Deep Space 1 payload, the Delta second stage manoeuvred from its 185 km parking orbit to a 174 km x 2744 km x 28.5 degree orbit. It then released the SEDSAT micro-satellite, built by the Huntsville, Alabama chapter of SEDS (the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space). SEDSAT has two amateur radio transponders and an earth imaging camera
Photo Gallery
SEDSAT 1
Credit: Manufacturer Image
