KOMPSAT-1

KOMPSAT-1, also called Arirang 1, was the first Korean Multi-purpose Satellite, an Earth observation spacecraft built by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute with TRW of the United States supplying the satellite bus. It carried three instruments: an Electro-Optical Camera, an Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager and a Space Physics Sensor. The satellite, which weighed 469 kilograms, was launched on 21 December 1999 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a Taurus-2110 rocket, sharing the flight with ACRIMSat and Celestis 04, and was placed in a roughly 694 by 729 kilometer orbit inclined 98.28 degrees. Its power came from two deployable solar arrays and batteries. On 31 January 2008 the Korea Aerospace Research Institute formally ended the eight-year mission after controllers lost contact with the satellite. A prototype listed before it on the source page was never launched.