Universitetsky Tatyana 2

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Mission type Technology SATCAT no. 35868 Launch date 17 September 2009 Regime Low Earth orbit Reference system Geocentric orbit		COSPAR ID 2009-049D Rocket Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat Launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome Operator Moscow State University

Perigee 820 kilometres (510 mi) Apogee 827 kilometres (514 mi) Similar Nanosat‑1B, Progress M‑66, Progress M‑MIM2, PharmaSat, USA‑207

Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 is a small research and educational satellite mainly developed by Taiwan (National Cheng Kung University and National Central University) and Russia Moscow State University and launched on 17 September 2009 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This satellite was equally sponsored by Taiwan and Russia. Along with teamwork supported by Mexico and South Korea, the two Taiwanese institutions particularly contributed satellite computing systems, flight programmes as well as thermotic, magnetic, and digital data processing devices.

Mission objectives

The satellite is part of an international research and educational youth program of near-Earth space exploration. The mission's objectives are:

Investigating light phenomena in the Earth’s atmosphere due to the effect of galaxy cosmic rays and high-energy charged particles;

Investigating en-route radiation conditions;

Investigating variations of the Earth’s gravitational and magnetic fields.

References

Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 Wikipedia

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