MINISAT-01
MINISAT-01 was the first operational spacecraft in Spain's INTA-led Minisat programme. Its compact scientific payload combined LEGRI, a coded-mask low-energy gamma-ray telescope, with investigations of diffuse extreme-ultraviolet radiation and liquid-bridge behavior in microgravity, demonstrating a nationally developed small-satellite platform and ground segment.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Minisat 1Minisat-11997-018A
- Name
- MINISAT-01
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- MINISAT-01 was the first operational spacecraft in Spain's INTA-led Minisat programme. Its compact scientific payload combined LEGRI, a coded-mask low-energy gamma-ray telescope, with investigations of diffuse extreme-ultraviolet radiation and liquid-bridge behavior in microgravity, demonstrating a nationally developed small-satellite platform and ground segment.
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- Outcome
- MINISAT-01 reached orbit and operated successfully for about five years, far exceeding its planned two-year lifetime. Its instruments returned high-energy astronomy, extreme-ultraviolet, and microgravity data before the spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere in February 2002.
- Programs
- Start Date
- 1997-04-21
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- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 17:37:52 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 31, 2026 at 21:56:14 UTC
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- Search Name
- MINISAT-01 Minisat 1 Minisat-1 1997-018A
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