Spacetrack Directory Name | UKUBE-1 |
Alternative name | FUNCUBE-2 |
Follow UKUBE-1 | UKUBE-1 Tracker |
Pass predictions UKUBE-1 | Pass predictions UKUBE-1 |
Orbit launches | 2014-07-08 g.02:00 (10 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 3793 |
Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
WWW | Here |
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Perigee | 613 km |
Apogee | 618 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 98.35° |
Laps per day | 15 |
Orbit | LEO (Sun-Synchronous) |
Height UKUBE-1 | 598.2 km |
Demonstrate new UK space technology. Demonstrate the capability of useful science to be performed within a CubeSat sized spacecraft. Demonstrate industry and university based training in spacecraft development. Demonstrate education and outreach in STEM subjects. Demonstrate Payload Kick-Off to flight qualified spacecraft in less than 12 months. TOPCAT, from the University of Bath, is the first GPS device aimed at measuring plasmaspheric space weather. The CMOS Image Demonstrator by the Open University is a camera that will take images of the earth and test the effect of radiation on space hardware using a new generation of image sensor. Astrium?s ?Janus? Experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of using cosmic radiation to improve the security of communications satellites and to flight test lower cost electronic systems. AMSAT?s FUNcube-2, an outreach payload allowing school children of primary and secondary age to interact with the spacecraft.
satellite UKUBE-1 Date of exalting 08.07.2014y. Average height of ISS UKUBE-1 hundred 598.2 km. Average velocity UKUBE-1 is 27223.58 km/h. Inclination UKUBE-1 satellite 98.34°.
In the table below we show the frequencies UKUBE-1.
Uplink | Downlink | Beacon | Mode | Call sign |
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435.060-435.080 MHz |
145.950-145.930 MHz | Beacon: 145.915 | 1200bps BPSK | |
435.060-435.080 MHz |
145.960-145.940 MHz | SSB | ||
145.805/2401.000 MHz | Beacon: 145.840 | 1200bps BPSK CW | UKUBE1 | |
145.840 MHz | CW | |||
145.844 MHz | CW | |||
145.844 MHz | CW | |||
435.074 MHz |
145.930 MHz | USB | ||
145.915 MHz | BPSK |