Mission type | Didymos flyby | ||||||
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Operator | Italian Space Agency | ||||||
COSPAR ID | 2021-110C | ||||||
Mission duration | ~6 months[1][2] | ||||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||||
Bus | 6U CubeSat | ||||||
Manufacturer | Argotec | ||||||
Launch mass | 14 kg (31 lb) | ||||||
Dimensions | 10 × 20 × 30 cm (3.9 × 7.9 × 11.8 in) | ||||||
Power | Solar array × 2 | ||||||
Start of mission | |||||||
Launch date | 24 November 2021, 06:21:02 UTC | ||||||
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5, B1063.3 | ||||||
Launch site | Vandenberg SLC-4E | ||||||
Deployed from | DART | ||||||
Deployment date | 11 September 2022, 23:14 UTC | ||||||
End of mission | |||||||
Last contact | Autumn 2022[1] | ||||||
Orbital parameters | |||||||
Reference system | Heliocentric | ||||||
Semi-major axis | 1.0018 AU (149,870,000 km) | ||||||
Eccentricity | 0.06497 | ||||||
Perihelion altitude | 0.9368 AU (140,140,000 km) | ||||||
Aphelion altitude | 1.0669 AU (159,610,000 km) | ||||||
Inclination | 3.8196° | ||||||
Period | 366.27 days | ||||||
RAAN | 60.858° | ||||||
Argument of perihelion | 79.427° | ||||||
Mean anomaly | 230.05° | ||||||
Epoch | 27 September 2022[3] | ||||||
Flyby of Didymos system | |||||||
Closest approach | 26 September 2022, 23:17 UTC | ||||||
Distance | 56.7 km (35.2 mi) | ||||||
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Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube, IPA: [ˈli.t͡ʃi.əˌkjuːb][4]) is a six-unit CubeSat of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). LICIACube is a part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and carries out observational analysis of the Didymos asteroid binary system after DART's impact on Dimorphos. It communicates directly with Earth, sending back images of the ejecta and plume of DART's impact as well as having done asteroidal study during its flyby of the Didymos system from a distance of 56.7 km (35.2 mi), 165 seconds after DART's impact.[5] LICIACube is the first purely Italian autonomous spacecraft in deep space. Data archiving and processing is managed by the Mission Control Center of Argotec. Mission ended sometime in the autumn of 2022[1]
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