NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

SARAL & Rideshares

Launch Time
Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:31 UTC

TUGSAT-1 and UniBRITE were the first Austrian satellites.

Rocket

PSLV-CA
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $21.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,847 kN
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 44.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m

Mission Details

SARAL

SARAL or Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa is a cooperative altimetry technology mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and CNES (Space Agency of France).

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 407.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Sapphire

Sapphire is a Canadian space surveillance satellite which was launched in 2013. Sapphire was constructed by MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates (MDA) based on an SSTL-150 bus produced by Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and an optical payload produced by COM DEV International.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 148.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

NEOSSat

The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian microsatellite using a 15-cm aperture f/5.88 Maksutov telescope (similar to that on the MOST spacecraft), with 3-axis stabilisation giving a pointing stability of ~2 arcseconds in a ~100-second exposure. It is funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and will search for interior-to-Earth-orbit (IEO) asteroids, at between 45 and 55 degree solar elongation and +40 to -40 degrees ecliptic latitude.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 74.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

TUGSAT-1

TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

UniBRITE-1

UniBRITE-1 is, along with TUGSAT-1, one of the first two Austrian satellites to be launched. Along with TUGSAT, it operates as part of the BRIght Target Explorer constellation of satellites.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

STRaND-1

STRaND-1 (Surrey Training, Research and Nanosatellite Demonstrator 1) is a 3U CubeSat developed by Surrey University's Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

AAUSAT3

AAUSAT3 is the third CubeSat built and operated by students from Aalborg University in Denmark.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2013

10th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

38th mission
1st mission of 2013
26th successful mission
6th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

23rd mission
1st mission of 2013
21st successful mission
19th consecutive successful mission