CHIPSat
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 CHIPSat (courtesey NASA) |
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| Organization | NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley |
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| Contractor | SpaceDev, Inc. |
| Mission Type | Astronomy |
| Satellite of | Earth |
| Launch | January 12, 2003 on Delta II 7320-10 |
| Launch site | VAFB SLC-2W |
| Mission duration | 1 year |
| Mass | 64 kg (total), 40 kg (bus) |
| Webpage | chips.ssl.berkeley.edu |
| Orbital elements | |
| Semimajor Axis | 6955.88 km |
| Eccentricity | 0.0013 |
| Inclination | 94.01 degrees |
| Orbital Period | 96.23 minutes |
| Right ascension of the ascending node | 11.86 degrees |
| Argument of perigee | 19.70 degrees |
| Instruments | |
| Spectrometer | A nebular spectrograph [1] |
CHIPSat (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) is a microsatellite. It was launched onboard a Delta II alongside the larger ICESat. CHIPSat is the first of NASA's University-Class Explorers (UNEX) mission. The primary science objective is to study the million-degree gas in the interstellar medium. CHIPSat will capture the first spectra of the faint, extreme ultraviolet glow that is expected to be emitted by the hot interstellar gas within about 300 light-years of the sun.
It is the first U.S. mission to use TCP/IP for end-to-end satellite operations control.
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