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- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Country
- Chile
- Operator
- Chilean Air Force
- Image
- Mujicafasat.gif
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1995-08-31
- space launch vehicle
- Tsyklon-3
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FASat-Alfa was to become the first Chilean satellite, and was constructed under a Technology Transfer Program between the Chilean Air Force (FACH) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the United Kingdom. The primary goal of the Program was to obtain for Chile the basic scientific and technological experience required to continue with more advanced steps. The purposes of the FASat-Alfa mission are to create a group of engineers with aerospace experience, to have the first Chilean satellite in orbit, and to install and operate the Mission Control Station (ECM-Santiago) in Chile.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FASat-Alfa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.