Freja (satellite)
Swedish National Space Board | |
| COSPAR ID | 1992-064A |
|---|---|
| SATCAT no. | 22161 |
| Website | Freja at SCC |
| Mission duration | Primary: 2 years, 8 months, 24 days Total: 4 years |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | Swedish Space Corporation |
| Dry mass | 214 kilograms (472 lb) |
| Payload mass | 60 kilograms (130 lb) |
| Power | 168 watts (nominal) 81 watts (payload) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | October 6, 1992, 06:20:05 UTC |
| Rocket | Chang Zheng 2C |
| Launch site | Jiuquan LA-2B |
| End of mission | |
| Last contact | October 1996 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 601 kilometres (373 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 1,756 kilometres (1,091 mi) |
| Inclination | 63 degrees |
| Period | 108.90 minutes |
| Epoch | 6 October 1992, 23:19:19 UTC[1] |
FREJA was a
U.S. dollars
, excluding the costs of experiments.
It was funded with Swedish tax money through the
German Ministry for Science and Technology
.
Experiments (payload)
- (F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- (F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, United States
- (F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
- (F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
- (F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
- (F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary, Canada
- (F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
- (F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
See also
References
- ^ "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
External links
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