launched fromRussia
Nadezhda 6
Success
JUN 28200010:37:00 UTCAlongside the Nadezhda search-and-rescue satellite, this launch carried two pioneering small spacecraft built by Surrey: Tsinghua-1, a microsatellite flown with China's Tsinghua University, and SNAP-1, a 6 kg nanosatellite carrying a machine-vision camera and its own propulsion. SNAP-1 was meant to maneuver up to Tsinghua-1 and inspect it, an early demonstration of autonomous nanosatellite rendezvous.
LIFTOFF
JUN 28 200010:37:00 UTC
Success
launched fromPad 132/1Plesetsk
aboardKosmos 3MintoSSO
Payloads · 3
- 01
Nadezhda 6 (Nadezhda 9)
Navigation
- 02
Tsinghua 1 (Hangtian Qinghua 1)
Technology development
- 03
SNAP 1
Technology development
