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Designator id: 2009-002C

Description of SPRITE-SAT (RISING) Satellite:

Seven microsatellites were deployed as piggyback payloads to the Ibuki spacecraft. All of these spacecraft will follow a similar roughly 660 km sun-synchronous orbit. Six of the small satellites were developed by universities and private-sector companies; the seventh is a technology demonstrator for JAXA.

Sprite-Sat, developed by Tohoku University, is a cube of approximately 50 cm and 50 kg mass and will observe sprites and gamma-rays generated during Earth thunderstorms.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 2009-01-23
Launch Vehicle: H-2A
Launch Site: Tanegashima, Japan

Funding Agencies:
Unknown (Japan)

Disciplines:
Earth Science

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 33494U 09002C   12339.16852165  .00000321  00000-0  62394-4 0  9013
2 33494 098.1198 089.0649 0003415 189.7618 170.3517 14.69550074207150

Last TLE update on :2012-12-04

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