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Satellite:
CICERO
Satellite details
Acronym
CICERO
Full name
Community Initiative for Continuing Earth Radio Occultation
Satellite Description
Constellation of nano-satellites (6U CubeSat), designed for maintaining up to 24 flight units.
Orbit heights ranging from 500 to 700 km, and various orbit inclinations, depending on the launch of opportunity.
Main missions: radio occultation sounding.
Substantial contribution to Space weather
Mass at launch
10 kg
Dry mass
Power
21 W
Data access link
no link provided
Data access information
The data are made available by GeoOptics, Pasadena, CA, USA, on a commercial basis.
Orbit
Sunsynchronous orbit
Altitude
550 km
Space agency
GeoOptics
Status
Operational
Details on Status (as
available)
8 flight units launched as of 3 September 2020 (CICERO 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10 and OSM-1 CICERO).
Launch
23 Jun 2017
EOL
≥2025
Last update:
2022-05-30
Associated satellite programme and related satellites
Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational ,
blue tag : future
Satellite Payload
All known Instruments flying on
CICERO
Acronym
Full name
CION
CICERO Instrument for GNSS-RO
Show instrument status and calibration
Satellite payload
All known instruments flying on
CICERO
* The information in this field is estimated or assumed