Sac C Satellite Launch

It came back to vandenberg air force base on march 31 2011.

Sac c satellite launch.

Sac c satélite de aplicaciones científicas c sac c scientific application satellite c is an international cooperative earth observation mission of argentina usa denmark brazil italy and france with conae comisión nacional de actividades espaciales of buenos aires conae is the space agency of argentina and nasa as the main partners. An arianespace vega c rocket will launch the lares 2 satellite for asi the italian space agency. Sac c will share its launch vehicle with nasa s eo 1 spacecraft. Sac c will be three axis.

Aquarius was a nasa instrument aboard the argentine sac d spacecraft. The second stage shuts down after a 17 second burst and should have achieved the desired 369 9 by 380 8 nautical mile orbit inclined 98 28 degrees for the sac c satellite. In this context conae has joined efforts with nasa in the creation of the first international earth observation constellation with argentine sac c and the u s. The scientific applications satellite s sac a was a small ejectable low cost argentinian satellite that was launched during the sts 88 space shuttle endeavour mission.

The spherical lares 2 satellite is covered in laser mirrors to enable precise tracking from the. Aquarius was shipped to argentina on june 1 2009 to be mounted in the invap built sac d satellite. Experimental earth observation satellite built by invap for conae argentina. The spacecraft s launch configuration is 6 8 x 6 1 x 5 4 feet 2 1 x 1 9 x 1 7 meters.

Spacecraft the spacecraft weighs approximately 1 045 pounds 475 kilograms. Its mission is to remotely sense vegetation wetlands and ecosystem in four wavelength bands covering 0 4 1 75 microns with a spatial resolution of 1 km. The solar arrays are deployed in orbit and will span nearly ten feet. The satellite launched by conae was sac d aquarius which was launched on 10 june 10 2011.

Commercial satellite operatorses has selected spacex and united launch alliance to each launch two geostationary satellites designed to replace c band capacity in the united states that the. Landsat 7 eo 1 and terra missions. Sac c satellite de aplicaciones cientifico b is an international argentina plus usa france italy denmark and brazil satellite that was launched by a delta 7320 10c rocket at 13 24 ut from vandenberg afb.