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Topic: FASat Alfa

	FASat-Alfa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The purposes of the FASat-Alfa mission are to create a group of engineers with aerospace experience, to have the first Chilean satellite in orbit, and to install and operate the Mission Control Station (ECM-Santiago) in Chile.
		The Alfa satellite was launched on 31 August 1995 on TSYCLON from Plesesk.
		Its orbit was intended to be 682 x 651 km, inclined at 82.53 degrees, however, the spacecraft failed to separate from the failed Ukrainian satellite it was attached to.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FASat-Alfa (221 words)

	eoPortal directory: FASat-Bravo
		FASat uses the proven modular UoSAT bus design (MicroSat-70 platform); the S/C is stabilized by an Earth-pointing gravity boom and by a three-axis magneto-torquing system.
		The data is used by OBC to generate an orbital element set and to provide scheduling and synchronization to other onboard computers, and to allow ground stations equipped with a GPS receiver to experiment with applications for real-time DGPS.
		FASat (like its predecessor PoSat-1) is able to autonomously determine its orbit through the processing of GPS data into orbital elements (generation of Keplerian elements using a 32-bit transputer system).
	directory.eoportal.org /pres_FASatBravo.html (1287 words)

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		Sich is based on the Okean remote sensing satellites built by the Ukrainian company NPO Yuzhnoe for the USSR and subsequently the Russian Space Agency.
		Carried into orbit with Sich was the FASat Alfa microsatellite, with imaging and communications experiments for the Chilean Air Force.
		Reports indicate that FASat-Alfa failed to separate from the Sich main payload.
	www.planet4589.org /space/jsr/back/news.255 (444 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; August 29, 1995
		University of Chile astronomers Maria Teresa Ruiz and Jose Massa praised the deputy's draft law, explaining that Chile's scientific community has been lobbying for laws to regulate astronomy in Chile.
		* HEADLINE: CHILE ENTERS SPACE RACE KEYWORD: ECONOMY; ENVIRONMENT SOURCE: EL MERCURIO TEXT: The FASAT- Alfa, Chile's first satellite, will be launched into orbit this evening from the Russian rocket station of Plestetsk at 21.00 hours Chilean time.
		President Eduardo Frei will watch the event on a giant screen specially installed in Los Cerrillos airport by the Chilean Air Force, FACh.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h95/chip.19950829.html (3304 words)

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