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