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Satellite information OBJECT TE
| Spacetrack Directory Name | OBJECT TE |
| Orbit launches |
1998-11-20 |
| Deorbitation date |
2022-11-18 |
| Days in orbit | 8764 |
| Country/organisation of origin | USA (US) |
| Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
| WWW | Here |
| Perigee | 409 km |
| Apogee | 421 km |
Additional information OBJECT TE
The PATCOOL CubeSat mission is a testbed for the performance of experimental cryogenic selective surface samples in LEO. To accurately portray the Sun?s affects on the samples, vehicle is kept zenith custom ADCS (attitude determination and pointing using a custom ADCS combining a single D3 boom with a tipmass and a magnetorquers for passive 3-axis stabilization. The PATCOOL software requirements can be considered a subset of D3.
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