STELLA

Class: Earth. Type: Geodetic. Destination: Sun Synchronous Orbit. Nation: France. Agency: CNES.

Laser reflectors.

Typical orbit: 793 km x 803 km at 99 degrees inclination. Mass: 48 kg (105 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Ariane 4.

STELLA Chronology

1993 September 26 - Stella - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane 4. Mass: 48 kg (105 lb). Perigee: 797 km (495 mi). Apogee: 805 km (500 mi). Inclination: 98.30 deg. Period: 100.90 min.
Laser reflectors.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.

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