CHIPSat photograph

CHIPSat

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Orbital period1. 6 hours
Inclination94. 01°
SpectrometerA nebular spectrograph (9 to 26 nm)
Nominal mission duration1 year
Launch sites Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID1247188
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About CHIPSat


CHIPSat is a now-decommissioned, but still-orbiting, microsatellite. It was launched on January 12, 2003 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II with the larger ICESat, and had an intended mission duration of one year. CHIPSat was the first of NASA's University-Class Explorers mission class.

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