LAGEOS-2
second of two satellites in the LAGEOS mission
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Summary
LAGEOS-2 is a geodetic satellite[1].
Key Facts
- Country: Italy[2]
- Instance of: passive satellite[3]
- Follows: LAGEOS-1[4]
- Manufacturer: Alenia Spazio[5]
- Made from material: aluminium[6], brass[7], fused quartz[8], germanium[9]
- Part of: LAGEOS[10]
- Space launch vehicle: Space Shuttle[11]
- Type of orbit: medium Earth orbit[12]
- UTC date of spacecraft launch: October 22, 1992[13]
- Significant event: rocket launch[14]
- Described by source: LAGEOS II pericenter general relativistic precession (1993–2005): Error budget and constraints in gravitational physics[15], LAGEOS II perigee rate and eccentricity vector excitations residuals and the Yarkovsky–Schach effect[16]
- Start point: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B[17]
- Vessel: Columbia[18]
- Mass: 405.38 kg[19]
- Diameter: 60 cm[20]
- Has part(s) of the class: corner reflector[21]