SAPPHIRE
SAPPHIRE (Stanford AudioPhonic PHotographic IR Experiment, also called Navy-OSCAR 45) was a satellite built by the Stanford University students in Palo Alto, California.

The satellite was launched on September 30, 2001 together with Starshine 3, PICOSat and PCSat on an Athena 1 rocket at the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, United States.

Its purpose was the training of students, the operation of an infrared sensor, a digital camera, a speech synthesizer and from 2002 the operation of an APRS digipeater. He also served to train midshipmen of the US Naval Academy in the field of satellite control.

The satellite's mission ended in early 2005.
Q41506
Stanford University
ORG
Q47265
Palo Alto, California
LOC
Q1480087
Starshine 3
MISC
None
PICOSat
UNK
Q2754398
PCSat
MISC
Q22770
Athena 1 rocket
MISC
Q283842
Kodiak Launch Complex
LOC
Q797
Alaska
LOC
Q30
United States
LOC
Q581851
infrared sensor
Concept
Q62927
digital camera
Concept
Q273693
digipeater
Concept
Q559549
US Naval Academy
Concept
Q6121701
SAPPHIRE
MISC
2001-09-30T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
September 30, 2001
DATE
2002-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2002
DATE
2005-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2005
DATE
+45^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
45
NUMBER
+3^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
3
NUMBER
+1^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1
NUMBER
UTC date of spacecraft launch
country of origin
located in the administrative territorial entity
country
country