• Source: DemoSat

A DemoSat is a boilerplate spacecraft used to test a carrier rocket without risking a real satellite on the launch. They are most commonly flown on the maiden flights of rockets, but have also been flown on return-to-flight missions after launch failures. Defunct satellites from cancelled programmes may be flown as DemoSats, for example the maiden flight of the Soyuz-2 rocket placed an obsolete Zenit-8 satellite onto a sub-orbital trajectory in order to test the rocket's performance.




See also


Boilerplate (spaceflight)




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Delta IV
• Delta IV Heavy
• RatSat
• DemoSat
• Astranis
• Falcon 1
• Delta III
• Anatoly Agarkov
• Odyssey (launch platform)
• Zenit-3SL
• Delta IV
• Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 133