Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Production Corporation Polyot
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
Russia
Date
Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4408 ever
Mission
CHAMP (Challenging Mini-Satellite Payload) is a German small satellite mission for geoscientific and atmospheric research and applications, managed by GFZ. MITA carries the payload NINA-2 for the study of solar and galactic cosmic rays. The detector used in this mission is identical to the one already flying on the Russian satellite Resurs-O1 4 in a 840 km sunsynchronous orbit, but makes use of the extensive computer and telemetry capabilities of MITA bus to improve the active data acquisition time.