Globalstar 26

 1999-041A

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M26 was the first of a new group of four launched on 1999 Jul 25. Launch was delayed a day to give STS-93 a third chance to launch.

Mass 448 kg; dispenser is 269 kg. Total stack (4 sats and dispenser) 2061 kg.

Globalstar 26
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Jul 25	0746:03	Launch by Delta	CC LC17A
		T+1:03 SRB burnout
		T+1:07 SRB sep
		T+4:24 MECO
		T+4:32 St 1 sep
		T+4:37 St 2 TIG
		T+4:47 PLF sep
	0757:21	T+11:18 SECO1	185 x 1361 km x 51.9
	0847:55	T+1:01:52 SES2
	0848:21	T+1:02:18 SECO2	1367 x 1367 km x 52.0
	0855:13	T+1:09:10 U1/U2 sep
	0859:23	T+1:13:20 L1/L2 sep
	0934:23	T+1:48:20 SES3 evasive
		T+1:48:25 SECO3	1010 x 1373 x 52
	0941:53	T+1:55:50 SES4 depletion
		T+1:55:56 SECO4	422 x 1360 x 52
1999 Jul 25			113.13 1369 x 1371 x 52.0
1999 Aug 10		Orbit raise
1999 Aug 12		114.08 1412 x 1414 x 52
2010 Sep 7			114.08 1413 x 1413 x 52
2010 Sep 10		Orbit raise	118.07 1590 x 1597 x 52.0
2010 Sep 17		Orbit raise	124.24 1866 x 1872 x 52.0
2010 Sep 24		Orbit raise	127.01 1989 x 1994 x 51.9

Ibuki

 2009-002A

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Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) to measure CO2 and SiO2. 'Ibuki' means 'breath' or 'puff'.

Formerly NASDA Global Change Observation Mission. GCOM-A1 for atmospheric monitoring; GCOM-B1 for earth observation. Follow on to ADEOS.

1750 kg box + 2 panels; 2.0 x 1.8 x 3.7m bus span 13.7m. Built by MELCO Kamakura.

GOSAT was jointly developed by JAXA, Japan's Ministry of the Environment, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

SOHLA-1 50 kg? SOHLA, Osaka MicroLab Sat-2 50 kg? JAXA SDS-1 100 kg JAXA SpriteSAT 20 kg Tohoku PRISM 8 kg U Tokyo Kagayaki 20 kg Sorun Corp KKS-1 3 kg Tokyo-MCIT STARS 7 kg Kagawa U

Launch by H2A202 with 4S fairing.

GOSAT
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2009 Jan 23	0354	Launch by HIIA 202	TSC
		T+1:56 SRB-A burnout 47 km
		T+2:06 SRB-A sep
		T+4:30 PLF sep 147 km
		T+6:36 MECO 298 km
		T+6:44 St 1 sep
	0402	T+6:50 SEIG 320 km
	0409	T+15:11 SECO 671 km
	0410	T+16:01 GOSAT sep
	0418	T+24:21 SDS-1 sep
	0422	T+28:31 SPRITE sep
	0426	T+32:41 SOHLA sep
	0430	T+36:51 Kagayaki sep
	0435	T+41:01 KKS 1 sep
	0439	T+45:11 STARS sep
	0443	T+49:21 PRISM sep
2009 Jan 24			98.15 669 x 671 x 98.0
		(Stage 2 )	97.26 589 x 666 x 98.1

Payload:

• TANSO-FTS Fourier transform spectrometer, near IR and thermal IR

• TANSO-CAI Cloud and aerosol imager

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