Category
page 1Atmospheric sounding satellites
Vanguard 1
fourth artificial Earth orbital satellite
CHAMP
German geomagnetic research satellite
MIMOSA
MIMOSA (Micromeasurements of Satellite Acceleration), COSPAR 2003-031B, was a Czech scientific microsatellite. The satellite was nearly spherical with 28 sides and carried a microaccelerometer to monitor the atmospheric density profile by sensing the atmospheric drag on the approximated sphere.