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TabletSat-Aurora
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<h2 id="launch">Launch</h2> <p>TabletSat-Aurora was launched from <a href="/facts/Dombarovsky_(air_base)/Lonyn6ke">Dombarovsky</a> site 13, Russia, on 19 June 2014 by a <a href="/facts/Dnepr_(rocket)/g3VIdEfT">Dnepr</a> rocket.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Two-way communication with Earth was successfully established soon after launch.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="mission">Mission</h2> <p>It intended to verify technologies for the future satellite constellation Earth observation technologies<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Main payload is the panchromatic photo camera capable of 15m resolution at nadir.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Spaceflight portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/2014_in_spaceflight/TbIQWUJN">2014 in spaceflight</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tabletsat-aurora.htm">Gunters space page on TabletSat-Aurora</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"TabletSat-Aurora". spaceflight101.com. Retrieved March 18, 2023. <a href="https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tablesat-aurora/" target="_blank">https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tablesat-aurora/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite". GIM International. Retrieved March 18, 2023. <a href="https://www.gim-international.com/content/article/first-russian-private-earth-remote-sensing-satellite?output=pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gim-international.com/content/article/first-russian-private-earth-remote-sensing-satellite?output=pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Russian private satellite transmitted the first signal to Earth (translated from Russian)". June 19, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2023. <a href="https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/1268351" target="_blank">https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/1268351</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"TabletSat-Aurora". spaceflight101.com. Retrieved March 18, 2023. <a href="https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tablesat-aurora/" target="_blank">https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tablesat-aurora/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Krebs, Gunter D. "TabletSat-Aurora". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved March 18, 2023. <a href="https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tabletsat-aurora.htm" target="_blank">https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tabletsat-aurora.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>