BremSat

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Brem-Sat
Brem-Sat
Country: Germany
COSPAR-ID : 1994-006H
Mission dates
Dimensions: 63 kg
Size: Diameter: 48 cm,
height: 52 cm
Begin: 3rd February 1994
Starting place: Kennedy Space Center
Launcher: Discovery
Status: burned up
Orbit data
Rotation time : 91.4 min
Orbit inclination : 56.9 °
Apogee height :  363 km
Perigee height :  344 km

Brem-Sat was a small German satellite that carried out scientific experiments and environmental observations for a year from February 1994. The satellite was built in cooperation between ZARM, an institute of the University of Bremen, and OHB-System , financed by Dara today DLR .

BREM-SAT launched on February 3, 1994 aboard the space shuttle Discovery ( STS-60 ) and was launched on February 9. After a successful mission, the satellite entered the earth's atmosphere on February 12, 1995 and burned up.

tasks

  • Determination of the thermal conductivity of pure liquids and compounds under microgravity conditions
  • Measurement of the residual acceleration inside the GAS container of the space shuttle.
  • Measurement of the occurrence of micrometeorites and the flow of dust in a near-earth orbit.
  • Research into gas-surface interactions. Measurement of the influence of normal and tangential forces on a free-floating surface element.
  • Measurement of atomic oxygen during earth orbit.
  • Pressure and temperature measurements during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.

Technical specifications

designation

technology

Web links

  • Indulis Kalnins, Manfred Fuchs: Small- and Nano-Satellites from Bremen. (pdf) Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Science, February 15, 2008, p. 41 , archived from the original on April 5, 2014 ; accessed on June 20, 2016 (English, lecture for a commercial college).