VELOX-I

Photo VELOX-I

40057
Spacetrack Directory Number
2014-06-30
Orbit launches


Satellite information VELOX-I

Spacetrack Directory Name VELOX-I
Orbit launches 2014-06-30
Country/organisation of origin Singapur (SING)
Starting point SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India)
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Perigee 629 km
Apogee 642 km

Additional information VELOX-I

To launch the first Singapore?s nanosatellite VELOX-I, which is designed, built, and operated by students from different schools in the College of Engineering, NTU. To acquire images of Earth and transmit them back to ground station. A narrow angle camera with tele-optics is used to provide high-resolution images of Earth from LEO. To carry out experiments relevant to technology demonstration.Payloads include: a vision system, a dual-FOV sun sensor. To piggyback launch a picosatellite (VELOX-PIII) for intersatellite communication experiment. Optics extension system all use spring-loaded mechanisms for deployment after launch. Imaging system with extended optics for 20 m ground resolution, a quantum physics payload and an intersatellite communications payload.

satellite VELOX-I Date of exalting 30.06.2014y.


Update time: 2023-04-18 16:53:04
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