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FASat-Alfa was to become the first Chilean satellite, and was constructed under a Technology Transfer Program between the Chilean Air Force (FACH) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) of the United Kingdom. The primary goal of the Program was to obtain for Chile the basic scientific and technological experience required to continue with more advanced steps. The purposes of the FASat-Alfa mission are to create a group of engineers with aerospace experience, to have the first Chilean satellite in orbit, and to install and operate the Mission Control Station (ECM-Santiago) in Chile.

There were two satellites: FASat-Alfa and FASat-Bravo. The Alfa satellite was launched on 31 August 1995 on TSYCLON from Plesetsk. Its orbit was intended to be 682 x 651 km, inclined at 82.53 degrees; however, the spacecraft failed to separate from the failed Ukrainian satellite it was attached to.

The Bravo satellite was launched on 10 July 1998, on TSYCLON from Baikonur. Its intended orbit was 682 x 651 km, inclined at 82.53 degrees. It was to operate 13,000 orbits until 2002.

Characteristics

Bus: SSTL microbus, fifth generation
Owner: Fuerza Aérea De Chile (Air Force), Chile
Payloads: Ozone Monitoring Experiment, Remote sensing, Data Transfer Experiment, Advanced Digital Signal Processing Payload, Orbital Positioning via GPS, Educational support

External links

Official FASat-Alfa project page (In spanish, with some articles in english) Archived 25 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Spanish Wikipedia article

v t e ← 1994 Orbital launches in 1995 1996 →
January	Intelsat 704 Express 1 Tsikada 1, Faisat 1, Astrid 1 Apstar 2 USA-108
February	STS-63 (SPARTAN-204, ODERACS 2A, ODERACS 2B, ODERACS 2C, ODERACS 2D, ODERACS 2E, ODERACS 2F Progress M-26 Foton #10
March	STS-67 Kosmos 2306 Kosmos 2307, Kosmos 2308, Kosmos 2309 Soyuz TM-21 SFU, Himawari 5 Kosmos 2310 Intelsat 705 Kosmos 2311 USA-109 Gurwin 1, EKA-2, UNAMSAT-A Brasilsat B2, Hot Bird 1
April	Orbcomm FM1, Orbcomm FM2, OrbView-1 Ofek-3 AMSC-1 Progress M-27 ERS-2
May	USA-110 Intelsat 706 Spektr GOES 9 Kosmos 2312 USA-111
June	Kosmos 2313 DirecTV-3 STEP-3 STS-71 Kosmos 2314
July	Kosmos 2315 Helios 1A, Cerise, UPMSat USA-112 STS-70 (TDRS-7) Progress M-28 Kosmos 2316, Kosmos 2317, Kosmos 2318 USA-113
August	Interbol 1, Maigon 4 PAS-4 Koreasat 1 Molniya 3-59 GEMStar 1 JCSAT-3 N-STAR a Kosmos 2319 Sich-1, FASat-Alfa
September	Soyuz TM-22 STS-69 (SPARTAN-201, WSF) Telstar 402R Resurs-F2 #10 Kosmos 2320
October	Kosmos 2321 Progress M-29 Luch-1 Astra 1E STS-73 USA-114 METEOR Kosmos 2322
November	Radarsat-1, SURFSAT USA-115 STS-74 (SO) ISO Gals 2 AsiaSat 2
December	SOHO USA-116 Télécom 2C, INSAT-2C Kosmos 2323, Kosmos 2324, Kosmos 2325 Galaxy 3R Progress M-30 Kosmos 2326 IRS-1C, Skipper EchoStar I RXTE
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).

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