Prisma is a satellite project led by the
Swedish Space Corporation
The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) provides space subsystems, space and satellite operations, rocket and balloon systems including experiment equipment, launch services, aerospace engineering services as well as airborne maritime surveillance s ...
(SSC) which consist of two satellites that fly in formation.
Prisma is operated in collaboration with
CNES
The (CNES; French: ''Centre national d'études spatiales'') is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose"). Its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is un ...
, the French space agency, which provides the radiofrequency metrology system that enables the satellites to fly in close formation while autonomously avoiding collisions.
It was launched, along with the
PICARD spacecraft, on 15 June 2010 on a
Dnepr launcher from
Dombarovskiy Cosmodrome, near
Yasny
Yasny (russian: Я́сный; masculine), Yasnaya (; feminine), or Yasnoye (; neuter) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
*Yasny, Orenburg Oblast, a town in Orenburg Ob ...
, Russia. Its primary objective is to test autonomous formation flying.
A secondary objective was to flight test a new monopropellant thruster using
ammonium dinitramide (ADN) propellant.
[K. Anflo, ''et al.,'' SSC09-II-4]
EXPANDING THE ADN-BASED MONO PROPELLANT THRUSTER FAMILY
(accessed 22 July 2014); K. Anflo, ''et al.,'' SSC07-X-2
FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION OF NEW THRUSTER AND GREEN PROPELLANT TECHNOLOGY ON THE PRISMA SATELLITE
(accessed 22 July 2014)
On 12 August 2010, SSC reported that the two satellites, called Mango and Tango, had separated from each other for the first time.
References
External links
Prisma SatellitesAbout Prisma
Space programme of Sweden
Spacecraft launched in 2010
Spacecraft launched by Dnepr rockets
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