Freja (satellite)

Infobox_Spacecraft
Name = FREJA
Caption = FREJA
Organization = Swedish National Space Board
Major_Contractors = Swedish Space Corporation
Mission_Type = Magnetospheric research
Satellite_Of = Earth
Orbital_Insertion_Date =
Launch = October 6, 1992 (06:20:00 UTC)
Launch_Vehicle = Long March 2C
Decay =
Mission_Duration = Primary mission ended June 30, 1995. Last contact was on October 14, 1996 at ~ 20:30 UTC.
NSSDC_ID = 1992-064A
Webpage = [http://www.ssc.se/default.asp?groupid=200491794047899&pageid=2004618145024784 Freja at SCC]
Mass = 214 kg (dry mass) + 60 kg (payload)
Power = 168 watts (nominal) 81 W (payload)
Orbital_elements =
Semimajor_Axis =
Eccentricity =
Inclination = 63°
Orbital_Period = 108.90 min
Apoapsis = 1,756 km
Periapsis = 601 km
Orbits =

FREJA was a Swedish satellite developed by the Swedish Space Corporation on behalf of the Swedish National Space Board. It was piggyback launched on a Long March 2C launch vehicle from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China on October 6, 1992. The satellite total cost was 19 million U.S. dollars, excluding the costs for experiments.

It was funded with Swedish tax money through the Swedish National Space Board, donations from the Wallenberg Foundations and approximately 25% from the German Ministry for Science and Technology.

Experiments (payload)

* (F1) Electric Fields, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
* (F2) Magnetic Fields, Applied Physics Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University, USA.
* (F3C) Cold Plasma, National Research Council of Canada, Canada.
* (F3H) Particles; Hot Plasma, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden.
* (F4) Waves, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden.
* (F5) Auroral Imager, University of Calgary, Canada
* (F6) Electron Beam, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
* (F7) Particle Correlator, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

See also

* Viking (satellite)

External links

* [http://www.ssc.se/default.asp?groupid=200491794047899&pageid=2004618145024784 Freja at Swedish Space Corporation]
* [http://www.astronautix.com/craft/freja.htm Freja at Astronautix]