Artemis Picosats
Artemis Picosat
Artemis is the second undergraduate satellite project at Santa Clara University. It is part of the Santa Clara Remote Extreme Environment Mechanism (SCREEM) laboratory, which was started to investigate and design various mechanisms to survive extreme environments. These environments include the vacuum of space and the depths of the ocean.
As one of the three picosatellite providers for Stanford's Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher (OPAL) project, the Artemis group is using a low cost, quick prototype process to continually explore the limitations of picosatellites. The Artemis satellites carried a VLF wave experiment. The three picosats were launched in January 2000. Unfortunately no data was received from the picosats.
| Nation: | USA |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Experimental |
| Operator: | Artemis |
| Contractors: | ? |
| Equipment: | ? |
| Configuration: | Box with deployable antenna |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 0.5 kg (Thelma, Louise); 0.2 kg (JAK) |
| Orbit: | 750 km × 805 km, 100.22° |
| Satellite | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis Louise (Lightning) | 26.01.2000 | Va CLF | Minotaur-1 | with JAWSAT, FalconSat 1, ASUSat 1, OCSE, OPAL, MEMS 1A, MEMS 1B, STENSAT, MASAT, Artemis-Thelma | |
| Artemis Thelma (Thunder) | 26.01.2000 | Va CLF | Minotaur-1 | with JAWSAT, FalconSat 1, ASUSat 1, OCSE, OPAL, MEMS 1A, MEMS 1B, STENSAT, MASAT, Artemis-Louise | |
| MASAT (JAK) | 26.01.2000 | Va CLF | Minotaur-1 | with JAWSAT, FalconSat 1, ASUSat 1, OCSE, OPAL, MEMS 1A, MEMS 1B, STENSAT, Artemis-Thelma, Artemis-Louise |
