Freja (satellite)
FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992. The satellite's total cost was 19 million U.S. dollars, excluding the costs of experiments.
![]() Mockup of the Freja satellite, in the entrance hall of the Swedish Space Corporation in Solna, Sweden | |
Mission type | Magnetospheric research |
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Operator | Swedish National Space Board |
COSPAR ID | 1992-064A |
SATCAT no. | 22161 |
Website | Freja at SCC |
Mission duration | Primary: 2 years, 8 months, 24 days Total: 4 years |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | Swedish Space Corporation |
Dry mass | 214 kilograms (472 lb) |
Payload mass | 60 kilograms (130 lb) |
Power | 168 watts (nominal) 81 watts (payload) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | October 6, 1992, 06:20:05 UTC |
Rocket | Chang Zheng 2C |
Launch site | Jiuquan LA-2B |
End of mission | |
Last contact | October 1996 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 601 kilometres (373 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 1,756 kilometres (1,091 mi) |
Inclination | 63 degrees |
Period | 108.90 minutes |
Epoch | 6 October 1992, 23:19:19 UTC[1] |
It was funded with Swedish tax money through the Swedish National Space Board, donations from the Wallenberg Foundation and approximately 25% from the German Ministry for Science and Technology.
Experiments (payload)
- (F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- (F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, United States
- (F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
- (F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
- (F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
- (F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary, Canada
- (F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
- (F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
See also
References
- "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Trajectory Details". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
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