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DeCAS Mission II - ION

Space Debris Footprint Computation on Board

Successufully Launched on September 2, at 03:51 a.m.

Mission Completed

Follow the live feed of the launch on

Arianespace website
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Aviosonic and D-Orbit cooperation for the second time

Decas Mission II will take place is part of ION mission as Space debris risk mitigation.

MISSION SERVICES PACKAGE

ION satellite will test DeCAS performance both during in orbit phase, by a simulation, and for the last part of the mission.

Liftoff successfully occured on September 1/2 at exaclty:

  • 09:51:10 p.m., Washington, D.C. time, on September 1
  • 10:51:10 p.m., Kourou, French Guiana time, on September 1
  • 01:51:10, Universal Time (UTC), on September 2,
  • 03:51:10 a.m., Paris and Rome time, on September 2,

MISSION COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY

MISSION OBJECTIVES

  • In orbit system demonstration
  • Broadcasting Footprint Area
  • Reentry simulation calculation

MISSION DURATION

  • The nominal duration of the mission (from liftoff to separation of the 53 satellites) is: 1 Hour, 44 minutes and 56 seconds

TARGETED ORBIT FOR THE 7 MICROSATELLITES

  • Sun-synchronous orbit
  • Altitude at separation (approximative): 515 km
  • inclination: 97.45 degrees

TARGETED ORBIT FOR THE 46 NANOSATELLITES

  • Sun-synchronous orbit
  • Altitude at separation (approximative): 530 km
  • inclination: 97.51 degrees

Another important step for this mission is the collaboration with Nurjanatech with Newmos software. This permits an automatic fire surveillance of an entire region or nation in near real-time and a localized view on the heart of the reentering satellite debries. The calculated footprint by our onboarded DeCAS will communicate the exact position of every debries to display and localize.

Aviosonic ION Educational Project

Take a look to Aviosonic initiative for schools.

ION at school