Ariane 42P | Topex-Poseidon, Kitsat 1 & S80/T
ArianespaceAriane Launch Area 2 — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Topex-Poseidon, Kitsat 1 & S80/T
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
The TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite was launched on 10 August 1992 with the objective of "observing and understanding the ocean circulation". A joint project between NASA, the U.S. space agency, and CNES, the French space agency, it carries two radar altimeters and precise orbit determination systems, including the DORIS system. KITSAT-1 (Korean Institute of Technology Satellite) was a collaborative research mission, encompassing the installation of a groundstation in South Korea, participation of Korean engineers in the UoSAT-5 mission, technology transfer and training of students on the MSc courses at Surrey, and the involvement in a engineering and flight microsatellites. The S80/T satellite was built for CNES by Matra Marconi Space using the Surrey Satellite Technology Microbus (Uosat) bus.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Ariane 42P
- Family
- Ariane
- Variant
- 42P
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
launch site
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 2
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.2320, -52.7782