Odin
Following the successes of its Viking and Freja geophysical satellites, Sweden launched a dual-mission satellite in 1997 with the cooperation of Canada, France, and Finland. The Odin spacecraft carries radiometers and spectrometers for investigations of celestial objects as well as the Earth's atmosphere. Launched by a Russian Start-1 booster, Odin has a mass of about 200 kg and is in a circular, sun-synchronous orbit at 600 km. The design life of the 3.0-m diameter, 1.8-m high satellite is two years. The spacecraft is 3-axis stabilized with an electrical power system of at least 300 W (Reference 56).
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