No signals from the Vietnamese NanoDragon micro-satellite

The radars also had no contact with one of the eight Japanese satellites that, along with Vietnamese ingenuity, were put into orbit from the Oceanora polygon on November 9, the agency’s deputy director general, Lu Xuan Hui, said.

He explained that the VNSC ground station had no information about the telemetry data transmission line in the electromagnetic spectrum, but did not mention the possible causes of the problem.

Measuring 10x10x34 centimeters and weighing nearly four kilograms, the NanoDragon will operate in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 560 kilometers. Its mission will be to locate ships on the high seas using a system similar to the well-known GPS.

The entire research, design and manufacturing process of the small satellite was carried out by VNSC, while the review of its technical parameters was responsible for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Vietnamese scientists are working on two larger satellites, LOTUSat-1 and LOTUSat-2, whose mission is to provide data to improve the efficiency of natural resource management and prevent damage caused by typhoons and other natural disasters.

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