CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Swift (in Japanese, referring to the fast spacecraft attitude changes for event monitoring; it also connotes a certain relationship to NASA's gamma-ray mission, Swift.)
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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LSS TITech
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Launch Date
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06 Nov 2014
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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01 Apr 2015
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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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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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97.4 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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506 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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11:00
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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A goal is to demonstrate the satellite bus technology for the 50 kg microsatellite class and to verify COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) components such as microprocessors, memory, and Li-ion batteries in the space.
The second mission goal is the high-speed attitude maneuver experiment using newly developed CMGs (Control Moment Gyros) to demonstrate spacecraft agility.
Demonstration of a high-resolution (14 m) optical camera as part of the payload.
Science and engineering mission - involving the observation of polarized X-ray and gamma-ray radiation sources.
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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.
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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