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Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CALIPSO Satellite
Payload and platform
© Thales Alenia Space, 2004
SATELLITE 
Mass 635 kg
Mission lifetime 3 years
 
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The CALIPSO satellite is constituted of :
 
    a PROTEUS platform (Plate-forme Reconfigurable pour l'Observation, pour les Télécommunications et les Usages Scientifiques). This platform is designed for 500 kg mass satellites at launch.

    a payload constituted of :

     
The satellite's main characteristics are :
 
    560 W
    Mass 635 kg
    Power 
    S band telemetry 727 kbps for telemetry
    4kbps for telecommands
    X band telemetry 80 Mbit/s
    Mission lifetime 3 years

The satellite has been put into orbit by a SELV B Class (Delta2) launcher supplied by NASA, and launched from Vandenberg, in double launch configuration with CLOUDSAT.


Latest update 28/04/2006
 
INSTRUMENTS
  Lidar
LIDAR		  
  Wide-field camera
WFC		  
  Infrared Imager Radiometer

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