Friday 17 February 2012

GOLIAT Satellite launch

GOLIAT is the first Romanian satellite.
The project has been started in 2005 by ROSA, having an initial budget of approximately 400.000 euro. GOLIAT is a nanosatellite based on the American Cubesat standard, cube-shaped 10x10x10 cm and weighting 1 kg.
Its Downlink Frequency is 437.4850 MHz .
This Satellite is of type Cubesat.   and it is launched on 13 February, 2012  at  Kourou.  The launching vehicle used is  Vega. It has the  Apogee of 1450.00,  perigee of  354.00 and its inclination is   71.00    
 The dimensions of satellite are 10cmx10cmx10cm and it has a weight of  1.000 Kg.
There are three scientific experiments onboard: SAMIS which aims to measure the meteorites flux, Dose-N which should measure the cosmic radiation dose on an Earth orbit and the acquisition of images from a 3Mpixels and 21x28 m ground resolution camera installed on the satellite.

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