Spacetrack Directory Name | UWE-2 |
Orbit launches | 2009-09-23 |
Country/organisation of origin | Niemcy (GER) |
Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
Perigee | 702 km |
Apogee | 710 km |
Demonstration of the newly developed Attitude Determination System (ADS). Equipped with a number of new sensors to be able to accurately determine the orientation in space. Demonstrate and verify the use of the new ADS. Further experiments on the topic of "IP in space". The successful experiments with Internet protocols in space of UWE-1 to continue with the UWE-2 satellite.
satellite UWE-2 Date of exalting 23.09.2009y.