SSOT
| SSOT | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Earth observation satellite |
| Country: |
 Chile
|
| COSPAR-ID : | 2011-076E |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 117 kg |
| Begin: | December 17, 2011 |
| Starting place: | Center Spatial Guyanais |
| Launcher: | Soyuz-2.1a |
| Status: | active |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 97.2 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.9 ° |
| Apogee height : | 624 km |
| Perigee height : | 622 km |
| Eccentricity : | 0.0001459 |
SSOT ( Spanish Sistema Satelital para la Observación de la Tierra ) is a Chilean earth observation satellite . On December 17, 2011, the Center Spatial Guyanais put it into sun-synchronous earth orbit with a Soyuz 2.1a rocket together with four Elisa satellites for the French military and the French satellite Pléiades-1A .
payload
SSOT is an earth observation satellite and should be able to provide recordings of the earth's surface for the Chilean Ministry of Defense with a resolution of up to 1.45 m in panchromatic and 6 m in four-channel multispectral recordings. The satellite has a mass of 117 kg and is based on the satellite bus myriad of CNES . The main contractor was EADS Astrium.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SSOT. www.n2yo.com, accessed December 4, 2014 .
- ↑ SSOT - orbit. heavens-above.com, accessed November 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Russian Soyuz rocket launches six satellites into space
- ↑ raumfahrer.net: Soyuz brings satellite sextet into space