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Kosmos-3M | CHAMP & MITA

CHAMP & MITA

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Launch Details

Date: 15 July 2000, 12:00 pm UTC

Rocket: Kosmos-3M (Kosmos)

Provider: Production Corporation Polyot

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Mission Description

CHAMP (Challenging Mini-Satellite Payload) is a German small satellite mission for geoscientific and atmospheric research and applications, managed by GFZ. MITA carries the payload NINA-2 for the study of solar and galactic cosmic rays. The detector used in this mission is identical to the one already flying on the Russian satellite Resurs-O1 4 in a 840 km sunsynchronous orbit, but makes use of the extensive computer and telemetry capabilities of MITA bus to improve the active data acquisition time.