Prism (Swedish satellites)
| Prisma (Mango & Tango) | |
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| Type: | Technology testing satellites |
| Country: |
 Sweden
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| Operator: | SNSB |
| COSPAR-ID : | Tango: 2010-028B Mango: 2010-028F |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | Mango: 140 kg Tango: 40 kg |
| Size: | Mango: 750 × 750 × 820 mm Tango: 570 × 740 × 295 mm |
| Begin: | June 15, 2010, 14:42 UTC |
| Starting place: | Jasny Cosmodrome |
| Launcher: | Dnepr |
| Status: | in operation |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 99.9 min |
| Track height: | initially 757 km |
| Orbit inclination : | 98.3 ° |
Prism ( P rototype R esearch I nstruments and S pace M ission technology A dvancement ) is the name of a Swedish satellite mission. The mission consists of two satellites built by the Swedish space company Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) on behalf of the national space agency SNSB , which are to be used to test formation flight and communication. 1N control engines are also to be tested, which use the new single-component rocket fuel LMP-103S , which is significantly less toxic than the hydrazine used up to now and yet achieves a higher specific impulse .
Both satellites were launched together with the French solar research satellite Picard on June 15, 2010 with a Dnepr rocket from the Jasny cosmodrome in Russia . The smaller satellite ( Tango ) weighing around 40 kg was separated from the 140 kg mother satellite ( Mango ) in orbit on August 12, 2010 . A series of experiments were then carried out. The mother satellite can be steered in all three axes and actively approaches the smaller satellite. For this purpose, the two cube-shaped satellites are equipped with highly sensitive sensors such as GPS receivers. The ground station only communicates with Mango, not with Tango.
From March 15, 2011, control of the Prisma Mission was taken over for five months by the German space control center in Oberpfaffenhofen.
Web links
- Prism Satellites. LSE Space (English)
- Prisma satellites wants to begin high-flying dance next week . Spaceflight Now (English)
- PRISM . Gunter's Space Page (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ D'Amico et al: Spaceborne Autonomous Formation Flying Experiment on the PRISMA Mission. (PDF; 3.6 MB) (No longer available online.) January 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 12, 2012 (English): "Mango and Tango were released ... into a nominal dusk-dawn orbit at a mean altitude of 757 km, 0.004 eccentricity and 98.28 ° inclination."
- ^ 'Green' satellite fuel designed to make space safer. ESA, March 16, 2010, accessed June 19, 2010 .
- ^ Dnepr rocket lifts off with satellites for France, Sweden. Spaceflight Now, June 15, 2010, accessed June 20, 2010 .
- Jump up ↑ Dance in Space with Mango and Tango . In: FliegerRevue January 2011, pp. 43–44.
- ^ The German Space Operations Center takes over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. DLR, March 15, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2012 (English).