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Designator id: 2009-051E

Description of ITUPSAT 1 Satellite:

These spacecraft are four cubesats each with a mass of 1 kg and intended for technology demonstrations. They were launched as secondary payloads on an Indian PSLV rocket from Sriharikota on 23 September 2009 at 06:21 UT. UWE 2, a German cubesat, is intended to demonstrate a new Attitude Determination and Control System and the use of GPS on a cubesat; BeeSat, a German cubesat, will verify the behavior of new micro reaction wheels for picosatellites. ITU-pSAT1, a Turkish cubesat, will examine the performance of an on-board passive stability system it will also carry a camera. SwissCube, a Swiss cubesat, will take optical airglow measurements validating the use of low-cost off-the-shelf detectors for these observations.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 2009-09-23
Launch Vehicle: PSLV-CA
Launch Site: Sriharikota, India

Funding Agencies:
Indian Space Research Organization (India)

Disciplines:
Technology Applications

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 35935U 09051E   12338.77498219  .00001971  00000-0  48744-3 0   780
2 35935 098.3574 081.6253 0007622 309.2241 050.8273 14.53104487169475

Last TLE update on :2012-12-04

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