Munin (satellite)
Swedish nanosatellite
Munin was a Swedish nanosatellite . It was launched on November 21, 2000 on a Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California , together with two other satellites. Munin was developed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in cooperation with students from Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University . Last contact was on February 12, 2001, after a manual CPU reset; failure was probably in the boot PROM.
General information
Dimensions
Size: 213 x 213 x 218 (height) mm
Mass: 6 kg
Science
Combined ion and electron spectrometer
High energy particle detector
Miniature CCD camera intended for auroral imaging
Onboard computer
Elliptical polar orbit. Perigee : 698 km, apogee : 1800 km.
See also
References
January February March April May June July August September October November December
STS-97 (ITS P6 )
EROS A
USA-155
Astra 2D , GE-8 , LDREX
Beidou 1B
Gonets-D1 No.7, Gonets-D1 No.8, Gonets-D1 No.9, Strela-3 No.125, Strela-3 No.126, Strela-3 No.127
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
CubeSats are
smaller .
Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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