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| GIOVE B |
| Industrial Partners: |
Satellite Prime: Astrium Germany, Satellite AIV: Thales Alenia Space Italy, Payload: Astrium UK, Platform: Thales Alenia Space France
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| Orbital Parameters: |
Meo at 23.200 km |
| Launch date: |
April 26 2008 22:16 UTC |
| Lifetime: |
Estimated 2.5 years |
| Operation centre: |
Telespazio Control Centre, Fucino, Italy
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| Ground Stations: |
Fucino (I), and Kiruna (SE)
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| System: |
3-axis stabilised |
| Sizes: |
cube-shaped body of 0.95 x 0.95 x 2.4 m |
| Mass: |
530 kg (lift off mass) at launch |
| Power: |
1100 W via 2 Sun-tracking arrays each 4.34 m long. |
| Propulsion: |
Hydrazine system with single tank of 28 kg |
| Transmission: |
Payload simultaneously transmits Galileo signals in two out of three available frequency channels (L1+E5+E6).
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Payload main elements:
| Antenna |
Phased array of individual L-band elements, illuminating the whole visible Earth |
| Signal-generation unit: |
Flexible to transmit differents types of signals |
| Clocks: |
Three redundant, two rubidium atomic clocks and one hydrogen maser with a stability of 1 ns per day, which will be the most stable clock ever flown in space |
| Radiation Monitors: |
Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM) to characterise the Medium Earth Orbit radiation environment |
| Laser reflector |
Approximately same size as GLONASS (developed by Russian company) |
Platform main elements:
| AOCS Actuators: |
4 Reaction wheels
2 Magnetotorquers
8 thrusters
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| AOCS Sensors: |
2 Earth Sensors
2 Gyro's
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| OBC: |
1 Internal redundant ICDU
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| TTC: |
1 Transponder (up 2kbps down 32 kbps)
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