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CESAR

Alenia Spazio is also designing a small, free-flyer platform which could be used for geophysics experiments. One mission under consideration is the Central European Satellite for Advanced Research (CESAR) which would investigate the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere. Envisioned as a nearly 300 kg platform, the satellite would be placed in an elliptical orbit of 400 km by 1,000 km (Reference 56).

56. T. Pirard, "Small is Beautiful", Spaceflight, April 1995, pp. 122-124.

Sources and Resources

• Adapted from: Europe and Asia in Space 1993-1994, Nicholas Johnson and David Rodvold [Kaman Sciences / Air Force Phillips Laboratory]

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