ACRIMSAT
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The Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite, or ACRIMSAT was a satellite carrying the ACRIM-3 (Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor 3) instrument. It was one of the 21 observational components of NASA's Earth Observing System program. The instrument followed upon the ACRIM-1 and ACRIM-2 instruments that were launched on multi-instrument satellite platforms. ACRIMSAT was launched on 20 December 1999 from Vandenberg Air Force Base as the secondary payload on the Taurus launch vehicle that launched KOMPSAT. It was placed into a high inclination of 98.30°, at 720 km. Sun-
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- ACRIMSAT
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite
- Spaceflight.image
- ACRIMSat spacecraft model.png
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- ACRIMSAT satellite
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Solar astronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASAJPL
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 1999-070B
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 26033
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 5 years (planned) (achieved)
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Spaceflight.dimensions
- wide highTotal span with solar arrays
- Spaceflight.power
- 80 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 21 December 1999, 07:13 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Taurus 2110
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Vandenberg, LC-576E
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Spaceflight.entered_service
- April 2000
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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 178
- Mass
- 115
- Image
- ACRIMSat spacecraft model.png
- Height
- 66
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- ACRIMSat
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1999-12-21
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- History
- Team
- ACRIMSAT instrument
- Technology
- End of the mission
- References
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The Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite, or ACRIMSAT was a satellite carrying the ACRIM-3 (Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor 3) instrument. It was one of the 21 observational components of NASA's Earth Observing System program. The instrument followed upon the ACRIM-1 and ACRIM-2 instruments that were launched on multi-instrument satellite platforms. ACRIMSAT was launched on 20 December 1999 from Vandenberg Air Force Base as the secondary payload on the Taurus launch vehicle that launched KOMPSAT. It was placed into a high inclination of 98.30°, at 720 km. Sun-synchronous orbit from which the ACRIM-3 instrument monitored total solar irradiance (TSI). Contact with the satellite was lost on 14 December 2013.
== History == ACRIM-3 made measurements of the TSI since the start of its mission in April 2000. It extended the TSI measurement database begun by earlier ACRIM instruments on the NASA Solar Maximum Mission (SolarMax) (ACRIM-1: 1980–1989) and Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) (ACRIM-2: 1991–2001).