SaudiSat-4
SaudiSat-4 is a Saudi-Arabian micro-satellite launched in 2014. It was built by the National Satellite Technology Center at KACST.
| Mission type | Space Science |
|---|---|
| Operator | KACST |
| COSPAR ID | 2014-033G |
| SATCAT no. | 40016 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 19 June 2014 |
| Rocket | Dnepr |
| Launch site | Dombarovsky site 370/13 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Sun Synchronous |
| Perigee altitude | 620 km |
| Apogee altitude | 620 km |
| Inclination | 97.9° |
Launch
SaudiSat-4 was launched from Dombarovsky (air base) site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a Dnepr rocket.[1]
Mission
The satellite is intended primarily for technology verification in space, main test piece being UV light diodes, intended for removal of static charge from the proof mass. Proof mass experiment is expected to pave the way to engineering of gravitational reference sensor (GRS) of drag-free spacecraft. This devise has an applications for the tentative Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravity wave detector.[2]
gollark: But you do need dates fairly often, and this makes it *consistent* between implementations.
gollark: For example, as well as the time-duration-type thing ("5y2mo3w" etc) it actually supports DD/MM/YYYY as well as some weird backward thing because it uses an external library for it too.
gollark: And even then it still has some weirdness.
gollark: Datetimes are very hard. AutoBotRobot has to do a bunch of stuff to make it do even roughly what people expect.
gollark: Although it does rely on JSON for encoding queries and sending results back, I guess.
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