CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- RaInCube
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Full Name
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Radar In a CubeSat
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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JPL
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Launch Date
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21 May 2018
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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31 Dec 2020
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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TBD
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Orbit Period
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Orbit Sense
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TBD
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Orbit Inclination
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51.6 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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400 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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RaInCube successfully demonstrated its objectives of demonstrating new radar technologies in Ka-band, demonstrating a Ka-band precipitation radar on a 6U CubeSat, identifying and burning down technical risks for radar payload an CubeSat bus and enabling precipitation profiling Earth science missions
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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