MicroDragon

MicroDragon
Mission type	Earth observation
Operator	Vietnam National Space Center
COSPAR ID	2019-003D
SATCAT no.	43935
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Microsatellite
Manufacturer	Vietnam National Space Center
Launch mass	50 kg (110 lb)
Dimensions	50 × 50 × 50 cm (20 × 20 × 20 in)
Start of mission
Launch date	18 January 2019, 00:50 UTC
Rocket	Epsilon
Launch site	Uchinoura Space Center
Contractor	JAXA
End of mission
Decay date	1 October 2024
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Sun-synchronous orbit
	Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-1 NanoDragon →

MicroDragon was a satellite built by the Vietnam National Satellite Center (VNSC).

Satellite

MicroDragon satellite was the product of "Preventing natural disasters and climate change using Earth observation satellite" (Vietnamese: Phòng chống thiên tai và biến đổi khí hậu sử dụng vệ tinh quan sát Trái Đất) project.

It was manufactured by 36 Vietnamese engineers. It costed 600 million USD.

MicroDragon's weight and dimension were 50 kg (110 lb) and 50 × 50 × 50 cm (20 × 20 × 20 in), respectively.

The satellite was successfully launched on 18 January 2019, along with six Japanese satellites.

The satellite decayed on 1 October 2024.

References

1 2 "Phóng thành công vệ tinh Microdragon" [MicroDragon satellite was successfully launched]. Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (in Vietnamese). 18 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
↑ "Việt Nam phóng vệ tinh NanoDragon vào cuối năm 2020". VTC News (in Vietnamese). 17 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
↑ "Vệ tinh 'Made in Vietnam' đầu tiên tách khỏi tên lửa, bay vào quỹ đạo với vận tốc 7,6 km/giây, gửi tín hiệu đầu tiên sau 25 giờ phóng" [The first 'Made in Vietnam' satellite separated from the rocket, flew into orbit at a speed of 7.6 km/s, sent the first signal after 25 hours of launch]. Người quan sát (in Vietnamese). 9 November 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
↑ "MicroDragon". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
↑ "MICRODRAGON Satellite details 2019-003D NORAD 43935". n2yo.com. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

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[vnsc-1] 1 2 "Phóng thành công vệ tinh Microdragon" [MicroDragon satellite was successfully launched]. Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (in Vietnamese). 18 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

[VTC20210117-2] "Việt Nam phóng vệ tinh NanoDragon vào cuối năm 2020". VTC News (in Vietnamese). 17 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

[3] "Vệ tinh 'Made in Vietnam' đầu tiên tách khỏi tên lửa, bay vào quỹ đạo với vận tốc 7,6 km/giây, gửi tín hiệu đầu tiên sau 25 giờ phóng" [The first 'Made in Vietnam' satellite separated from the rocket, flew into orbit at a speed of 7.6 km/s, sent the first signal after 25 hours of launch]. Người quan sát (in Vietnamese). 9 November 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

[4] "MicroDragon". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

[n2yo-5] "MICRODRAGON Satellite details 2019-003D NORAD 43935". n2yo.com. Retrieved 12 January 2025.

v t e ← 2018 Orbital launches in 2019 2020 →
January	ChinaSat 2D Iridium NEXT × 10 RAPIS-1, ALE-1, Hodoyoshi-2, MicroDragon, AOBA-VELOX-IV, NEXUS, OrigamiSat-1 USA-290 / KH-11 17 Jilin-1 Hyperspectral-01, Jilin-1 Hyperspectral-02 Microsat-R
February	Dousti† GSAT-31, SaudiGeoSat-1 / HellasSat-4 EgyptSat A, Helios Wire 4 Nusantara Satu / PSN 6, Beresheet, S5 OneWeb x6
March	Crew Dragon Demo-1 ChinaSat-6C Soyuz MS-12 WGS-10 PRISMA Lingque 1B† "Two Thumbs Up" (R3D2) Tianlian II-01
April	EMISAT, Astrocast 0.2, Bluewalker 1, Flock-4a × 20, Lemur-2 × 4, M6P Progress MS-11 O3b × 4 Arabsat-6A Cygnus NG-11 (NepaliSat-1, Raavana 1, Światowid, Seeker) BeiDou-3 I1Q
May	SpaceX CRS-17 Harbinger / ICEYE X3 BeiDou-2 G8 RISAT-2B Yaogan 33† Starlink v0.9 (60 satellites) Kosmos 2543 / GLONASS-M 758 Yamal-601
June	Jilin-1 Gaofen-03A RADARSAT Constellation × 3 Eutelsat 7C BeiDou-3 I2Q STP-2, DSX, COSMIC-2 × 6, GPIM, StangSat , FalconSAT-7, BRICSat-2, LightSail-2 BlackSky Global 3, SpaceBEE 8, SpaceBEE 9
July	Meteor-M 2-2, CarboNIX, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, Lemur-2 × 8, Lucky-7 Kosmos 2535, Kosmos 2536, Kosmos 2537, Kosmos 2538 Falcon Eye 1† Spektr-RG Soyuz MS-13 Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Pragyan SpaceX CRS-18 Yaogan 30-05 x3 Meridian 8 Progress MS-12
August	Blagovest-14L EDRS-C / HYLAS-3 Amos-17 AEHF-5 Tianqi-2, Qian Sheng-1 01 / Xingshidai-5 Chinasat 18 "Look Ma, No Hands" BlackSky Global 4 BRO-1 Pearl White × 2 Soyuz MS-14 GPS IIIA-02 Geo-IK-2 No.3 Taiji-1, Xiaoxiang 1-07
September	Ziyuan I-02D, Ice Pathfinder, Taurus 1 Zhuhai-1 x2 BeiDou-3 M23, M24 HTV-8 Yunhai-1 02 Soyuz MS-15 EKS-3
October	Gaofen 10R Eutelsat 5 West B, MEV-1 ICON "As The Crow Flies" Palisade TJS-4
November	Cygnus NG-12 (STPSat 4, HARP, HuskySat-1) Gaofen 7 BeiDou-3 I3Q Starlink V1.0-L1 (60 satellites) Jilin-1 Gaofen-02A BeiDou-3 M21, BeiDou-3 M22 Kosmos 2542, Kosmos 2543 Inmarsat-5 F5 Tiba 1 Cartosat-3, Flock-4p × 12 Gaofen 12
December	SpaceX CRS-19 ALE-2, Unicorn-2B / NOOR-1A, Unicorn-2C / NOOR-1B Progress MS-13 Jilin-1 Gaofen-02B Kosmos 2544 / GLONASS-M 759 RISAT-2BR1, Lemur-2 × 4 BeiDou-3 M19, BeiDou-3 M20 JCSAT-18 / Kacific 1 CHEOPS, CSG-1, OPS-SAT CBERS-4A / Ziyuan I-04A, ETRSS-1, Tianqin-1 Starliner Boe-OFT Elektro-L No.3 Gonets-M × 3, BLITS-M Shijian 20
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).

MicroDragon

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