SMART-1
Sign in to saveSMART-1 was a European Space Agency satellite that orbited the Moon. It was launched on 27 September 2003 at 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. "SMART-1" stands for Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology-1, part of the Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology programme. On 3 September 2006 (05:42 UTC), SMART-1 was deliberately crashed into the Moon's surface, ending its mission.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- SMART-1
- Spaceflight.image
- File:Artist's impression of the SMART-1 mission ESA199399.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Artist's impression of SMART-1
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- TechnologyLunar orbiter
- Spaceflight.operator
- ESA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2003-043C
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 27949
- Spaceflight.website
- SMART-1
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 2 years, 11 months, 6 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes, 36 seconds
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Swedish Space Corporation
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Ariane 5G
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kourou ELA-3
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Arianespace
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- 18 July 2005, 11:14:28 UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Selenocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 90.26 degrees
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Mass
- 287
- Orbital period
- 4.95
- Manufacturer
- Swedish Space Corporation
- Official website
- www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1
- Image
- Artist's impression of the SMART-1 mission ESA199399.jpg
- Significant event
- hard landing
Show 15 more facts
- start point
- ELA-3
- Commons category
- SMART-1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2003-09-27
- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- powered by
- ion thruster
- Commons gallery
- SMART-1
- time of object orbit decay
- 2006-09-03
- launch contractor
- Arianespace
- type of orbit
- lunar orbit
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.352054
- periapsis
- 2205
- apoapsis
- 4600
- orbital inclination
- 90.26
- cause of destruction
- hard landing
- native label
- SMART-1
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Spacecraft design
- Instruments
- AMIE
- D-CIXS
- XSM
- SIR
- EPDP
- SPEDE
- KATE
- Flight
- Lunar impact
- Important events and discoveries
- Smart-1 Ground Segment and Operations
- Smart-1 Mission Phases
- See also
- References
- External links
SMART-1 was a European Space Agency satellite that orbited the Moon. It was launched on 27 September 2003 at 23:14 UTC from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. "SMART-1" stands for Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology-1, part of the Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology programme. On 3 September 2006 (05:42 UTC), SMART-1 was deliberately crashed into the Moon's surface, ending its mission.
==Spacecraft design== SMART-1 was about one meter across (3.3 ft), and lightweight in comparison to other probes. Its launch mass was 367 kg or 809 pounds, of which 287 kg (633 lb) was non-propellant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SMART-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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