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- SAC-C is an international cooperative mission between NASA, the Argentine Commission on Space Activities (CONAE), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES or the French Space Agency), Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazilian Space Agency), Danish Space Research Institute, and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency). SAC-C was developed through the partnership of its senior partners, CONAE and NASA with contributions from Brazil, Denmark, France, and Italy. SAC-C will provide multispectral imaging of terrestrial and coastal environments. The spacecraft will study the structure and dynamics of the Earth?s atmosphere, ionosphere and geomagnetic field. SAC-C will seek to measure the space radiation in the environment and its influence on advanced electronic components. The satellite will determine the migration route of the Franca whale and verify autonomous methods of attitude and orbit determination. CONAE is responsible for development of the spacecraft and several instruments. The Brazilian Space Agency provided the testing facilities for SAC-C. The Italian Space Agency has partnered with CONAE to supply both solar panels and two GPS receivers. The Danish Space Research Institute provided the Magnetic Mapping Payload which carries a NASA Supplied Helium Magnetometer, and CNES is contributing an experiment to test the response of electronic circuitry to space radiation. The launch vehicle and some science instruments are provided by NASA. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. is responsible for overall project management.
[Summary provided by NASA]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: SAC-C Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Platform_Series_or_Entity: SAC Short_Name: SAC-C Long_Name: Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientifico - C End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: MOBLAS Short_Name: MMRS Short_Name: IST Short_Name: INES Short_Name: ICARE Short_Name: HRTC Short_Name: HCS Short_Name: GOLPE End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 702 km Orbit_Inclination: 98.2 degree Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-11-13 Online_Resource: http://www.conae.gov.ar/satelites/sac-c.html Sample_Image: http://space.skyrocket.de/img_sat/sac-c__2.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2000-11-21 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA Primary_Sponsor: Argentina/CoNAE Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA End_Group End_Group
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