FASTRAC 2
FASTRAC 2 | |
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Type: | Technology testing |
Country: | United States |
COSPAR-ID : | 2010-062M |
Mission dates | |
Begin: | November 20, 2010 |
Starting place: | Kodiak Launch Complex |
Launcher: | Minotaur |
Status: | active |
Orbit data |
FASTRAC 2 ( English Formation Autonomy Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude and Crosslink , also OSCAR 70 ) is an American technology testing satellite.
It was built at the University of Texas at Austin . The satellite was launched on November 20, 2010 UTC as a secondary payload with a Minotaur rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex . After the successful launch, the satellite was assigned the OSCAR number 70. Mission Control Center is a university amateur radio station with the callsign KE5DTW.
Mission and Payload
FASTRAC 2 started together with FASTRAC 1 and was only separated from him on March 22nd. The main mission is to test satellite control technologies. As an experiment, FASTRAC 2 has an inertial sensor on board and a digipeater with two uplinks in the 70 centimeter band and one downlink in the 2 meter band .