Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Lem in space - Newsweek Poland

November 21 is expected to reach space Lem – the first scientific satellite built entirely in Poland. Is located at an altitude of 800 km, which perform measurements of the brightness of 286 stars.

6 kg satellite weighs Lem. The heaviest, geostationary communications satellite TerreStar-1, has a mass of nearly 7 tons.

21 months before Lem in orbit was PW-Sat, a satellite built by students of the University of Warsaw. It was a test object did not have any specific tasks.

5400 pictures and 18 movies loaded a memory card that is on the board of another Polish satellite, Hevelius, as part of the “Send a picture into space.” His start is to take place a few weeks after Lem.

satellites 1114 of the United States is currently in the space.

0.15 – much percent was a chance that the lack of fuel falling satellite will hit gocce Lomza November 10.

7 minutes, instead of the planned 18 , operated motors Russian Proton-M rocket, which on July 2 was transported into space three satellites. As a result of equipment failure were destroyed and damage was estimated at more than $ 200 million.

Latest photo Lem before sending the rocket, which will launch

Latest photo Lem before sending the rocket, which will launch

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$ 3500 cost smartphone designed by NASA that can be launched into space on a satellite.

150 000 orbits around the Earth has done for almost 29 years the longest established satellite to observe the planet’s Landsat 5

56 years ago in orbit was the first artificial satellite of the Earth – the Soviet Sputnik 1

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