First made-in-S'pore satellite,by NTU & DSO
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First SG made a satellite wil be launched, after few years delay.
We will be naive if we believe it is just for " collect environmental data".
When DSO is involed,defense application sure cannot be ruled out lah.
Satellite Engineering Centre (SEC)--NTU
XSAT Micro-Satellite Project
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kkk
http://www.straitstimes.com/SME+Spotlight/Latest+Stories/Story/STIStory_508061.html
First made-in-S'pore satellite
Mar 29, 2010
Fridge-sized satellite, called X-Sat, will collect environmental data
With the launch of the 120kg satellite, Singapore is believed to be the first Southeast Asian country that will have its own locally built satellite in space.
mm
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Death star 1.0 lah
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Satellite Center must get the live info/ image asap, in a matter of minute.
Taiwan can get satellite live info faster than western satellite centers.
SG shall learn how Taiwan do.
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I wonder what happens if 50yrs down the road, would every country send their own satelite up to space? haha. will be overcrowded.
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FT dominate the satellite project. Out of 6 Professors, at least 3 are FT!!
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/Centre/sec/Projects.asp
Prof Zhong Wende--graduated fr Beijing U
Prof Arokiaswami Alphones---BSc University of Madras 1979
Prof Sunil Chandrakant Joshi----BEng(Dist) Shivaji University 1986
Lecture by Dr. N. Nagarajan ??on 'Small satellite Activities at NTU ...
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Reminds me of the NIRSATs in Dale Brown's novels
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NTU team studies world's fastest satellite Internet connection
XSat of NTU (Nanyang Technological University) - eoPortal Directory
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2.SG is small but we have 1.wind tunnel at NUS and
Speech by Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean - Defence Science and
... 2.Electromagnetic Effects Research Laboratory
Pl be reminded that NOT all western first world country get these 2 basic
facility in defense research. u know which country i refer to.
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i wonder what is the true cost.......?
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Electro Managetic facility
http://www.dsta.gov.sg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4294&Itemid=401
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
i wonder what is the true cost.......?
It is a peanut, compared with another forign occupation if u dunt prepare
well for defense. Remember the 3 years and 8 months Japanses occupation?
Only the survivor can remember better. LKY is one of them.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
It is a peanut, compared with another forign occupation if u dunt prepare
well for defense. Remember the 3 years and 8 months Japanses occupation?
Only the survivor can remember better. LKY is one of them.
okay you are dragging this question to another topics.........i did not buy the 40 million budget..... -
pl read today news--est 40 to 50 m S$.ok?
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When it launches, it launches. My guess is a lot of it is launch cost + ground monitoring equipment.
6 prof x $200k each year x 8 years = $9.6m.
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SG has been working with satellites for some times.
Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing
- www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/
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Satellite Engineering Centre (SEC)
ST news here
Mar 29, 2010
First made-in-S'pore satellite to launch soon
Fridge-sized satellite, called X-Sat, will collect environmental data
SINGAPORE is ready to head to space with the country's first satellite built from scratch here.
The Straits Times understands that the X-Sat, a micro-satellite about the size of a refrigerator, will be launched in June or July from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, 100km north of Chennai.
With the launch of the 120kg satellite, Singapore is believed to be the first Southeast Asian country that will have its own locally built satellite in space.
Scientists and engineers from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and DSO National Laboratories - Singapore's national defence research outfit - are putting the finishing touches on the X-Sat.
Work began as early as nine years ago, with a reported plan to launch it in 2007. That deadline came and went without any launches, but no reasons were given for the delay.
The Defence Ministry's permanent secretary for defence development, Dr Tan Kim Siew, revealed at a scholarship tea session earlier this month, that the satellite 'will be launched later this year'. Dr Tan is also chairman of the Defence Science and Technology Agency and DSO.
Both DSO and NTU declined further comment, except to say that the launch would be a 'scientific achievement for Singapore' and that more information would be given after the launch.
Space experts said delays in satellite launches are common, pointing out that satellites launched by the United States military and Nasa, for instance, are usually at least two years late.
Aerospace consultancy Teal Group's senior analyst and space studies director, Mr Marco Caceres, estimated that with the delay, the cost of the X-Sat would have ballooned from $10 million to about $40 million.
'More than half the cost will go to paying engineers and scientists to upkeep the satellite and also install new electronics or sensors on it,' he said.
The X-Sat will orbit the earth at a height of 800km and take photographs to measure soil erosion and monitor environmental changes. Dubbed Iris, the Korean-made camera can capture forest fires and sea pollution.
The communications systems on the satellite will also be able to relay information from sensors to a ground station at NTU.
The X-Sat will spend three years in orbit, said the X-Sat team in its mission progress report in 2005.
Previous satellite launches by Singapore involved construction efforts from foreign companies. In 1998, telco SingTel launched the 3.2-tonne ST-1 satellite built by Anglo-French company Matra Marconi Space and launched in France.
SingTel's second satellite, expected to be launched next year, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
The X-Sat will be one of at least five smaller units riding on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, said the Indian Space Research Organisation, which owns the launch vehicle.
Other countries with more established space programmes like China, the US and Israel launch more sophisticated satellites weighing between 500kg and 1,000kg every year. These include spy and communications satellites by military agencies.
While the X-Sat is small, it is still a credible effort by Singapore, said Mr Caceres. 'Not many countries in the world have this capability to build their own imaging and communications satellite... It will prove to be very useful in the future,' he said.
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what is the insurance premium cost?
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Though SG can access to many satellites , it still depend much
on other people. U wont share some very sensitive info with others. Right?
The only way is 100 % SG control satellite.
Data must be acquired fast,
analysed fast and conclusion drawn fast. Action based on conslusion must be
taken fast.
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/
CRISP operates a satellite ground station to acquire data from remote sensing satellites, and processes the archived data to standard or value-added products for distribution and research. The list of satellites CRISP receive include:
- SPOT 1,2,4 (since September 1995)
- ERS 1,2 (since March 1996)
- RADARSAT 1 (May 1997 - May 2000)
- SeaWiFS, NOAA and FengYun 1C (since September 1999)
- TERRA (MODIS) (since March 2001)
- IKONOS (since August 2001)
- EROS-A1 (since October 2001)
- AQUA (MODIS) (since July 2002)
- SPOT 5 (since October 2002)
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satelite with a giant telezscope,an image transmitter.....zoom lens.....no big deal...............
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actually u can use F-15 to launch the satelite using rockets......
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actually u can use F-15 to launch the satelite using rockets......
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Hmmmm maybe this project will put our program into perspective.....
Did you check out Robert Harrison put his own Satelite picture for just $750/- ha ha ha......
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would it be the first to fall back into earth?
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what do you think during the cold war how did Nato retrieve the mobile ICBM tube pictures?
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
Death star 1.0 lah
lol.. getting there. Eventually.
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south america Bolivia launching satellites with china in 3 years.,,,,BBC news
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Only one word to describe the launching of this satellite, " spy". We already have communications satellites, hence I concluded, the new satellite is for spying. It is not worthy considered the cost of about Sing$40 millions and we are in a peaceful region. Such public funds should have been used for ordinary Sg people.