CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Tactical Satellite-3
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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DoD (USA)
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Launch Date
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19 May 2009
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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30 Apr 2012
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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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Orbit Period
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93.6 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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40 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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425 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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The overall objectives are to demonstrate a responsive system, namely the operation of three payloads in space: the ARTEMIS hyperspectral imager (HSI), the Ocean Data Telemetry Microsatellite Link (ODTML), the SPA (Spacecraft Plug-n-play Avionics) package - and to provide the observation data in a timely manner.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
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