Spacetrack Directory Name | SWISSCUBE |
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Pass predictions SWISSCUBE | Pass predictions SWISSCUBE |
Orbit launches | 2009-09-23 (15 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 5521 |
Country/organisation of origin | Szwajcaria (SWTZ) |
Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
WWW | Here |
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Perigee | 700 km/h |
Apogee | 709 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 98.45° |
Laps per day | 15 |
Orbit | LEO (Sun-Synchronous) |
Height SWISSCUBE | 708.52 km |
The main objective is educational and to show the students how to build a complex engineering system from A to Z like a satellite. Carries a small telescope which will allow to obtain images of the nightglow, a luminescence phenomena occurring at 100 km of height above the Earth surface. Since the nightglow takes place in a very limited region in the high layer of the atmosphere and at well-know locations, it might be possible from the measurements to retrieve the direction towards the centre of the Earth and therefore enabling the design of a new generation of Earth sensor.
satellite SWISSCUBE Date of exalting 23.09.2009y. Average height of ISS SWISSCUBE hundred 708.52 km. Average velocity SWISSCUBE is 27010.82 km/h. Inclination SWISSCUBE satellite 98.48°.
In the table below we show the frequencies SWISSCUBE.
Downlink | Beacon | Mode | Call sign |
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437.505 MHz | Beacon: 437.505 | 1200*bps FSK CW | HB9EG1 |
437.505 MHz | CW | ||
437.501 MHz | CW | ||
437.500 MHz | BPSK |