Spacetrack Directory Name | ANDESITE |
Follow ANDESITE | ANDESITE Tracker |
Pass predictions ANDESITE | Pass predictions ANDESITE |
Orbit launches | 2020-06-13 (4 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 1624 |
Country/organisation of origin | USA (US) |
Starting point | RLLB (Rocket Lab Launch Base) |
Perigee | 581 km |
Apogee | 600 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 97.77° |
Laps per day | 15 |
Height ANDESITE | 585.81 km |
Deploys 8 small picosatellites. "ANDESITE is a 6U CubeSat that deploys several smaller ?pico-satellites? that each have their own self-contained scientific magnetometer, power system and radio communication system. Space-Based Wireless Sensor Network (SB-WSN) that addresses the limit of individual satellites? ability to spatially and temporally resolve the information on various space phenomena. The satellites collect data in a loosely held swarm, relaying the data back to the main spacecraft and down to the Earth through the GlobalStar sat-phone network. The data obtained from this mission will help map the current sheets of Region 1 and Region 2 Birkeland currents. It will also provide solid new constraints for models of auroral particle acceleration, wave particle interactions, ionospheric destabilization and other kinetic processes operating in the low-beta plasma of near Earth magnetosphere.
satellite ANDESITE Date of exalting 13.06.2020y. Average height of ISS ANDESITE hundred 585.81 km. Average velocity ANDESITE is 27247.79 km/h. Inclination ANDESITE satellite 97.77°.