BRITE Satellites

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Spacecraft BRITE (BRIght Target Explorer)
Spacecraft type Nanosatellite
Units or mass 10 kg
Organization Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
Institution Space agency
Entity type Government (Civil / Military)
Country Canada
Manufacturer AIVT by Space Flight Laboratory
Operator Space Flight Laboratory
Launch brokerer Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS-SFL)
Partners University of Toronto Space Flight Laboratory
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Investigation of the brightness oscillations of massive luminous stars, BRITE constellation.

Description

Investigation of the brightness oscillations of massive luminous stars by differential photometry. The scientific instrument is an optical camera with a high-resolution CCD to take images from distant stars with magnitude of 3.5.

Sources [1] [2] [3]
Photo sources [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Spacecraft

Name Status Launcher Date Orbit
TUGSat 1 (Technische Universität Graz Satellite), BRITE-Austria, CanX 3B) Operational? (Science website last updated 2022-05-20 and last checked 2023-06-06) PSLV 2013-02-25 780 km, 98.6 deg
UniBRITE-1 (BRITE-U, CanX 3A) Semi-operational? Was operational until 2019-07 (Observations stopped as per science website because of attitude control issues last checked on 2023-06-06) PSLV 2013-02-25 780 km, 98.6 deg
BRITE-PL-1 Lem (BRITE-Lem, CanX 3C) Semi-operational? Was operational until 2020-04 (Observations stopped as per science website because of attitude control issues last checked on 2023-06-06) Dnepr 2013-11-21 620 km, 97.8 deg
BRITE-CA 1 (BRITE-Toronto, CanX 3E) Operational? (Science website last updated 2022-10-22 and last checked 2023-06-06) Dnepr 2014-06-19 610 x 700 km, 98 deg
BRITE-CA 2 (BRITE-Montreak, CanX-3F) Deployment failure Dnepr 2014-06-19 610 x 700 km, 98 deg
BRITE-PL-2 Heweliusz (BRITE-Heweliusz, CanX 3D) Operational? (Science website last updated 2023-01-16 and last checked 2023-06-06) Long March 4B 2014-08-19 620 km, 97.8 deg

Last modified: 2024-05-29

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