SUNSAT

Specifications

• Size: 45 x 45 x 60 cm
• Mass: 64 kg
• Launcher: Delta II rocket, Mission P-91
• Program size: US $5M
• Lifetime: 4–5 years
• Main payloads:
• * Amateur radio communications
• * Data interchange
• * Stereo multispectral imager
• Attitude control: Gravity gradient and magnetorquers, reaction wheels when imaging
• Accuracy: 3 mrad pitch/roll, 6 mrad yaw
• 2 Micro Particle Impact Detectors were included as part of experiments conducted in orbit
• * A team from Peninsula Technikon designed and built circuits for both their own piezo film technology and NASA supplied capacitive sensors.
• SSC 25636

  Pushboom imager

• Ground pixel size: 15 m x 15 m
• Image width: 51.8 km