CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Space Optical Communications Research Advanced Technology Satellite
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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NICT
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Launch Date
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24 May 2014
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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24 May 2019
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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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97.4 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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97.9 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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628 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 objective is to demonstrate and validate the operation of SOTA (Small Optical TrAnsponder), a laser communication system in space. The goal is to experiment with QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) techniques and to foster the application free-space optical communications (higher data rates than RF communications) in microsatellites and eventually in nanosatellites.
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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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