Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
| FAST (Explorer 70) | |
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| Type: | Research satellite |
| Country: |
 United States
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| Operator: |
 NASA
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| COSPAR-ID : | 1996-049A |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 191 kg |
| Size: | 0.93 m high, 1.02 m diameter |
| Begin: | August 21, 1996, 09:47 UTC |
| Starting place: | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
| Launcher: | Pegasus XL |
| Status: | Out of service since May 4, 2009, still in orbit |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 125 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 83.0 ° |
| Apogee height : | 3436 km |
| Perigee height : | 354 km |
The Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer ( FAST ) is a research satellite of NASA , the plasma physics of occurring at both poles of the Earth auroras has researched. The satellite was built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and launched on August 21, 1996 with an airborne Pegasus XL rocket. Since the satellite is part of the Small Class Explorer program , it is also known as SMEX 2 or Explorer 70 .
After launch, FAST entered an elliptical Earth orbit with a perigee of 350 km and an apogee of 4175 km and an orbit inclination of 83 °. It takes almost 133 minutes to orbit the earth. The satellite flies through the aurora borealis, which is around 65 ° north and south latitude, four times per orbit and only collected data during this time. FAST is 0.93 m high, has a diameter of 1.02 m and a mass of 191 kg, 65 kg of which is accounted for by the scientific instruments. It is spin stabilized with 12 revolutions per minute. The inactive satellite is still in orbit. (As of August 2020)
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- Pfaff, R .; et al. (August 2001). An Overview of the Fast Auroral SnapshoT (FAST) Satellite ( PDF ). Space Science Reviews 98 (1/2)
- NASA page on the FAST mission
- FAST in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
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