COSPAR ID 2014-029C Period 1.6 hours Launch mass 48 kg Launch date 24 May 2014 | SATCAT no. 39768 Launch mass 48 kg Apogee 647,400 m | |
Mission type Technology demonstrator Operator Advanced Engineering Services Co., Ltd. Website Official page (Japanese) Dimensions 496 mm × 495 mm × 485 mm (19.5 in × 19.5 in × 19.1 in) Similar Kosmos 2501, PROCYON, UniSat‑6, UAPSat‑1 | ||
SOCRATES or Space Optical Communications Research Advanced Technology Satellite is a Japanese micro-satellite launched in 2014. The satellite is purely a technology demonstrator intended to help AES company to gain experience in basic mission control, attitude control and spacecraft communications. Its main experiment is SOTA (Small Optical TrAnsponder), an optical small satellite communications demonstrator. All subsystems of spacecraft are powered by solar cells mounted on spacecraft body and stub wings, with estimated electrical power of 120W BOL degrading to 100W EOL.
Launch
SOCRATES was launched from Tanegashima, Japan, on 24 May 2014 at 03:05:00 UTC by an H-IIA 202.
References
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