Munin was a

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. It was launched on November 21, 2000 on a Delta II rocket from the

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, together with two other satellites. Munin was developed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in cooperation with students from

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and

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. Last contact was on February 12, 2001, after a manual CPU reset; failure was probably in the boot PROM.

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* Dimensions ** Size: 213 x 213 x 218 (height) mm ** Mass: * Science ** Combined ion and electron spectrometer ** High energy particle detector ** Miniature CCD camera intended for auroral imaging * Onboard computer ** CPU: Texas Instrument TMS320C50 at ** RAM: 2 MByteirf.se - On board computer, Data Processing Unit (DPU)
/ref> Elliptical polar orbit.

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: 698 km,

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: 1800 km.

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