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Vietnam to Launch Pico Dragon Micro Satellite

By Tai Nichols | July 29, 2013

Tags: Vietnam, Satellite, CubeSat
Publication: Globaltimes.cn
Publication Date: 07/29/2013

The Vietnamese micro satellite, Pico Dragon, will be shipped to ISS in early August.

Image credit: VNSC

The Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) has confirmed that its micro satellite, Pico Dragon, will be shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in early August.

The device, a CubeSat, was designed to capture images of the Earth, collect space environment data and test communication systems. According to reports, the spacecraft will be launched from an H-IIB rocket from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima prefecture in Japan.

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