CSES
| China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite | |
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| Type: | Earth observation satellite |
| Country: |
 People's Republic of China
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| Operator: | CNSA |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 730 kg |
| Begin: | February 2, 2018 at 7:41 UTC |
| Starting place: | Jiuquan Cosmodrome , Launch Pad 94 at Complex 43 |
| Launcher: | Long March 2 D Y-13 |
| Orbit data | |
| Track height: | 500 km |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.4 ° |
China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) is an earth observation satellite of the Chinese CNSA . The satellite is also known as Zhangheng-1, after the inventor of the first seismograph, Zhang Heng .
It was launched on February 2, 2018 at 7:41 UTC with a Long March 2 D launcher from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome rocket launch site (together with two Aleph-1 Earth observation satellites "Ada" and "Maryam", two 6-Cubesat units, each weighing six kilograms heavy technology satellites GOMX 4A and 4B of the Danish Ministry of Defense and the Chinese 3-unit cubesats FangMaNiu 1 and Shaonian Xing , which are to be available for amateur radio operators and for school purposes) into a sun-synchronous orbit.
The three-axis stabilized satellite is equipped with nine devices to search for changes in the earth's magnetic field, in the particle composition of the ionosphere and changes in the earth's electrical field and in the plasma sphere and is intended to provide data that is to be examined for signs of impending earthquakes. It was built on the basis of the CAST2000 satellite bus from the Chinese space agency CNSA and has a planned service life of 5 years.
The devices are the "High Energy Particle Detector" (HEPD) supplied from Italy, as well as the "search-coil magnetometer ", "fluxgate magnetometer", "electrical field detector" (EFD), "plasma analyzer", "Langmuir probe", " GNSS occultation receiver "and the" magnetic field calibration device developed in Austria.
Individual evidence
- ↑ English.news.cn: China launches electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake precursors - Xinhua | English.news.cn , accessed February 11, 2018
- ↑ a b The Orion: China Tries Earthquake Prediction from Space , accessed on February 11, 2018
- ↑ a b China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite: Overview | CSES - China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite , accessed February 11, 2018