BelKA
Sign in to saveBelKA or BKA (an acronym from Belarusian: Беларускі Касмічны Апарат, Belarusian Cosmic Apparatus) is the first satellite of independent Belarus.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- BelKA
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Earth observation
- Spaceflight.operator
- National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 5 years (planned)Failed to orbit
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- ~
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Dnepr
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Baikonur 109/95
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- Planned
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth Orbit
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
3 sectionsContents
- First attempt
- Second attempt
- References
BelKA or BKA (an acronym from Belarusian: Беларускі Касмічны Апарат, Belarusian Cosmic Apparatus) is the first satellite of independent Belarus.
==First attempt== It was a remote sensing satellite that utilizes the USP (satellite bus), developed by Belarusian researchers and Russian Rocket and Space Corporation RSC Energia for National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus as the final customer of the satellite, which had the capacity to take photos of the Earth surface, with a maximum resolution of 2-2.5 meters.