| 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 |
| Oneliner |
Investigation of the brightness oscillations of massive luminous stars, BRITE constellation.
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| 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.
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| 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
