SaudiSat-4

SaudiSat-4
Mission type Earth observation
Operator KACST
COSPAR ID 2014-033G
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer Stanford University
Start of mission
Launch date 19 June 2014 (2014-06-19)
Rocket Dnepr
Launch site Dombarovsky site 370/13
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Sun Synchronous
Perigee 620 km
Apogee 620 km
Inclination 97.9°

SaudiSat-4 is a Saudi-Arabian micro-satellite launched in 2014. Details or photos of the bus are unknown.

Launch

SaudiSat-4 was launched from Dombarovsky (air base) site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a Dnepr rocket.[1] It is unknown if communications with satellite was established or not.

Mission

The satellite is intended primarily for technology verification in space, main test piece being UV light diodes, intended for removal of static charge from the proof mass. Proof mass experiment is expected to pave the way to engineering of gravitational reference sensor (GRS) of drag-free spacecraft. This devise has an applications for the tentative Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravity wave detector.[2]

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