AESP-14 [ITA]
AESP-14 satellite is a brazilian 1U CubeSat, which was developed as a scientific and technological cooperation basically between the ITA with the LIT – INPE-MCT and other departments from the INPE, in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
The mission objectives are:
The payload of AESP-14 consists of a Langmuir Probe for measurement of electron density and temperature of the ionospheric plasma. The payload was developed in the department at Space and Atmospheric Sciences of INPE.
AESP-14 was deployed from the International Space Station at 14:30 UTC on 5 February 2015. No signals from the satellite were received.
Nation: | Brazil |
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Type / Application: | Science, magnetosphere |
Operator: | ITA, INPE |
Contractors: | ITA, INPE |
Equipment: | ? |
Configuration: | CubeSat (1U) |
Propulsion: | None |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | |
Mass: | 1 kg |
Orbit: | 397 km × 405 km, 51.64° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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AESP-14 | 1998-067FM | 10.01.2015 | CC SLC-40 | Falcon-9 v1.1 | with Dragon CRS-5, CATS, Flock-1d' 1, Flock-1d' 2 |