Mission type | Technology demonstration |
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Operator | Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency |
COSPAR ID | 2013-066AB |
SATCAT no. | 39441 |
Website | www |
Mission duration | Design: 1 year Elapsed: 3 years, 10 months, 9 days |
Orbits completed | 15,074 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | 1U CubeSat |
Manufacturer | Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency |
Launch mass | 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) |
Dimensions | 10×10 cm (3.9×3.9 in) |
Power | 127 watts maximum |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 21 November 2013, 07:10 | UTC
Rocket | Dnepr |
Launch site | Dombarovsky 370/13 |
Entered service | 25 January 2014 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Sun-synchronous |
Semi-major axis | 7,024.99 km (4,365.13 mi) |
Eccentricity | 0.0083597 |
Perigee | 588.13 km (365.45 mi) |
Apogee | 705.58 km (438.43 mi) |
Inclination | 97.6637 degrees |
Period | 97.66 minutes |
Mean motion | 14.74 |
Epoch | 10 September 2016, 08:01:29 UTC |
NEE-02 Krysaor is an Ecuadorian technology demonstration satellite, and Ecuador's second satellite launched to space. Built by the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA), it is a single-unit CubeSat nanosatellite.Krysaor is a Pegasus-class spacecraft, a "twin" of Ecuador's first satellite, NEE-01 Pegaso. Like Pegaso, this spacecraft's instruments include a dual visible and infrared camera which allows the spacecraft to take pictures and transmit live video from space.