21578 - SARA

SARA was launched from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana on the same Ariane rocket with UOSAT 5, ORBCOMM-X, and TUBSAT. It carried a radio astronomy experiment designed to survey radioelectric emissions from Jupiter. It was an 0.45-m cube built by the French Club ESIEESPACE. With antennas deployed its height grew to 10 m. During its projected 11-year mission, SARA supplemented information gathered by the Ulysses and Galileo spacecraft.

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 1991-07-17
Launch Vehicle: Ariane 40
Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Mass: 36.0 kg