MicroDragon

Vietnamese artificial satellite

COSPAR ID2019-003D

MicroDragon
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Earth observation
Operator	Vietnam National Space Center
COSPAR ID	2019-003D
SATCAT no.	43935


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

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

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.^[1]

It was manufactured by 36 Vietnamese engineers.^[2] It costed 600 million USD.^[3]

MicroDragon's weight and dimension were 50 kg (110 lb) and 50 × 50 × 50 cm (20 × 20 × 20 in), respectively.^[4]

The satellite was successfully launched on 18 January 2019, along with six Japanese satellites.^[1]

The satellite decayed on 1 October 2024.^[5]

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.

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, 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 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 Cartosat-3, Flock-4p × 12 Gaofen 12
December	SpaceX CRS-19 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
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