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  ODIN,
2001-07A (26702)- ODIN is a 250kg mini-satellite built at the Swedish Space Corp for the Swedish National Space Board in collaboration with Canada, Finland, and France.
It was launched on the 20th February 2001 from the Svobodniy launch site in
Eastern Siberia on a START-1 (SL-18, SS-25) launcher, into a 606x630km
sun-synchronous orbit at 98.73 degrees. The main mission, which is planned
to last 2 years, is to carry out astronomical research. The Canadian Space Agency's Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed
Imager System (OSIRIS) instrument is carried designed and built by Routes AstroEngineering Ltd. of Kanata, Ontario.
It will study and causes and locations of ozone depletion by
scanning the stratosphere over the north and southern hemispheres. The
spacecraft also carries a Sub-Millimetre Radiometer with a 1.1-meter reflector
including 500 GHz and
119 GHz feeds, complementing the NASA SWAS mission radiometers. Its secondary
mission is to search for
water and oxygen in interstellar space, which will aid understanding of comets,
molecular clouds, the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, and the formation
of stars in nearby galaxies. The spacecraft control station is located in
Kiruna Sweden. The contribution of the Canadian Space Agency towards the
mission is reported to be approximately CD$15m. Canada's Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council is also providing CD$1m for ground based
support.
More...
[ODIN at SSC][ODIN][spacecraft
with panels deployed]
References
- [1] Spaceflightnow, (http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0102/20odin/)
[2] Space.com, (http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/start1_odin1_launch_010220.htm
l?Enews=y)
[3] University of Saskatchwan
press release (http://www.usask.ca/events/news/articles/20010220-1.html)
[4] University of Calgary press release (http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/news/Feb_01/odin.htm)
[5] Trent University press release (http://www.trentu.ca/news/pressreleases/satellite.html)
[6]
Jonathan's Space Report 448.
Picture courtesy of SSC
 ORBView-4 - Orbview-4 failed to get into the correct orbit due to a launcher injection
error on the TAURUS on the 21st September 2001. The 368kg spacecraft was
built by ORBITAL for their ORBIMAGE subsidiary, and carried a hyperspectral
imager..
- QuikTOMS
- QuikTOMS failed to get into the correct orbit due to a launcher
injection error on the TAURUS on the 21st September 2001. The 168kg mini-satellite
was built by ORBITAL for NASA to carry out Ozone depletion studies.
[Equipment exploded diagram]
- JASON-1, 2001-055A
- The French American Jason-1 spacecraft is a 500kg (472kg dry mass) spacecraft manufactured
by Alcatel for CNES the French space agency. The spacecraft is based on the
Proteus bus and was launched on
the 7th December 2001 on a DELTA-II 7920-10 from VAFB into a 1320km circular orbit
inclined at 66 degrees. The spacecraft carries a Poseidon sea-surface altimeter instrument that
will be employed to study the oceans including ocean currents. The
spacecraft also carries the Poseidon-2 instrument suite including a
radiometer to measure water vapour in the atmosphere. The spacecraft will
take part in various tracking experiments and carries DORIS precision
tracking equipment. CAL Corp of Canada
has supplied two star trackers for the mission.
- COSMOS
2384-6,
2001-058A-C (27055-57)
- A group of 6 similar minisatellites were launched on a Tsyklon (SL-14)
launcher from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the 28th December 2001. The spacecraft
were put into a 1415x1447km orbit inclined at 82.5 degrees. The three Cosmos spacecraft are part of a Russian military mission
for Russian Federation Ministry of Defence (MO RF) also using the STRELA-3
bus, but offer military data messaging and photo reconnaissance. More...
[Article on Tselina
craft]
References
- [1] Space.com, "Russia Launches Final
Mission of 2001, Seven Satellites Orbited During Past Week" ("http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tsiklon_launch_011228.html")
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Picture courtesy of Anatoly Zak/RussianSpaceWeb.com,
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- GONETS
12, 13, 14,
2001-058D-F (27058-60)
- A group of 6 similar minisatellites were launched on a Tsyklon (SL-14)
launcher from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the 28th December 2001, three of which
are part of the Gonets LEO data communications
network. The spacecraft were put into a 1415x1447km orbit inclined at
82.5 degrees. They will monitor disasters like oil spills and illicit
transport of radioactive cargo, and provide prompt alerts. The spacecraft
use the STRELA-3 bus, weigh 231kg each and are designed for a five year
lifetime by NPO Applied Mechanics (NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki of Krasnoyarsk,
Russia) for SMOLSAT (Russia). The spacecraft join 6 further Gonets spacecraft
in orbit
References
- [1] Space.com, "Russia Launches Final
Mission of 2001, Seven Satellites Orbited During Past Week" ("http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tsiklon_launch_011228.html")
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