Wednesday, July 18, 2012

MOST

 2003-031C


Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars, MOST, is a CSA minisat. Prime for the satellite bus is Dynacon Enterprises Ltd./Toronto. UBC provided the telescope under the leadership of Jamie Mathews. Launched 2003 by Rokot with Mimosa, Monitor-E and Japanese microsats as part of the Rockot Multiple Orbit Mission (MOM).

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MOST

MOST is the first in the SPP (Small Payload Program). Telescope aperture is 0.15m. MOST mass is 60 kg. Size is 0.65 x 0.65 x 0.30 m box, with 10 arcsec pointing. Studies mag 6 stars with photometry to 1 ppm. It was still operational in 2011.


MOST 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2003 Jun 30  1415:12 Launch by Rokot  PL 
  T+2:02 Stage 1 sep  
  T+2:51 Fairing  
 1420  T+5:05 Stage 2 sep 
 1420:19 T+5:07 Briz MES-1 
 1428:31  T+13:19 Briz MECO-1  -200? x 320 x 96.8  
 1459:08  T+43:56 Briz MES-2 51s 
 1500:09 T+44:47 Briz MECO-2  317 x 846 x 96.8 
 1502:18 T+47:06 Mimosa sep 
 1541:06 T+1:25:54 Briz MES-3 24s 
 1541:30 T+1:26:18 Briz MECO-3 
 1542:54 T+1:27:42 NLS-1/2 sep  
  NLS-1 fires Can X-1, DTUSat, AAU-Cubesat 
  NLS-2 fires Quakesat 
 1546:33 T+1:31:21 MOST sep 
 1547:43 T+1:32:31 (over PL) XI release  820 x 830 x 98.7  
 1547:43 T+1:32:31 CUTE-I release 
 1556:13 T+1:41:01 Briz deorbit burn 50s  250 x 830 x 98.4 
 1557:03 T+1:41:51 Briz MECO-4 
  Monitor still attached to Briz 
2011 Mar 30    101.40 817 x 832 x 98.7

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