Freja (satellite)
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| FREJA | |
| Organization | Swedish National Space Board |
|---|---|
| Major contractors | Swedish Space Corporation |
| Mission type | Magnetospheric research |
| Satellite of | Earth |
| Launch date | October 6, 1992 (06:20:00 UTC) |
| Launch vehicle | Long March 2C |
| Mission duration | Primary mission ended June 30, 1995. Last contact was on October 14, 1996 at ~ 20:30 UTC. |
| NSSDC ID | 1992-064A |
| Webpage | Freja at SCC |
| Mass | 214 kg (dry mass) + 60 kg (payload) |
| Power | 168 watts (nominal) 81 W (payload) |
| Orbital elements | |
| Inclination | 63° |
| Orbital period | 108.90 min |
| Apoapsis | 1,756 km |
| Periapsis | 601 km |
FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992. The satellite total cost was 19 million U.S. dollars, excluding the costs for experiments.
It was funded with Swedish tax money through the Swedish National Space Board, donations from the Wallenberg Foundations and approximately 25% from the German Ministry for Science and Technology.
[edit] Experiments (payload)
- (F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
- (F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, USA.
- (F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada, Canada.
- (F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden.
- (F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden.
- (F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary, Canada
- (F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
- (F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
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