OPTOS
Sign in to saveOPTOS was a Spanish nanosatellite designed and developed by INTA with support from the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) as a low-cost technology demonstrator. It was launched in 2013 and had a service life of three years.
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- Mass
- 3.8
- Orbital period
- 98
- Image
- Satélite OPTOS.jpg
- Height
- 34.5
- Width
- 10
- Length
- 10
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- OPTOS
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-11-21
- nominal power output
- 7.2
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 7048.147
- orbital inclination
- 98.07
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18 sectionsContents
- Mission
- Body
- Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem
- Electrical Power Subsystem
- On-Board Communications Subsystem
- On-Board Data Handling Subsystem
- Thermal Control Subsystem
- RF Communications Subsystem
- Launch
- Experiments
- Pre-launch tests
- APIS
- FIBOS
- GMR
- ODM
- See also
- References
- External links
OPTOS was a Spanish nanosatellite designed and developed by INTA with support from the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) as a low-cost technology demonstrator. It was launched in 2013 and had a service life of three years.
== Mission == OPTOS was devised as a testing platform to the national capabilities to produce an operating satellite with a limited developing time and budget (around 1.5 million euros). These requirements intended to grant easy access to space to both the Spanish scientific community and private business. Special attention was put on safety and ground testing prior to launch, consequently the satellite was qualified by both the ECSS, belonging to ESA, and INTA using its purpose-build Mission Simulation Test.