Template:Infobox Spacecraft Goliat is the first artificial satellite developed in Romania.
The nano satellite was developed and built by the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA). It has been designed by a team of engineers and physicists. When the project began, the developers of this satellite were still in college.
The satellite is cube-shaped and has a mass of 1 kilogram, and its dimensions are 10 cm on each side. It is built on a Cubesat platform. The satellite carries out three scientific tasks:micrometeorite flux measurements, cosmic radiation flux measurements at LEO and Earth surface imaging via a 3 megapixel camera.
The project was funded and supported by the Romanian Ministry of Education and the European Space Agency.
Although the initial launch was planned for 2008, the project had been postponed due to some issues with the carrier rocket, Vega.
After a series of delays, the satellite was successfully launched on 13 January 2012, from the Guiana Space Centre. It has been launched together with LARES_(satellite) and other CubeSat satellites, coming from other European countries.
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