PICSAT
2018-01-12
Satellite information PICSAT
| Spacetrack Directory Name | PICSAT |
| Orbit launches |
2018-01-12 g.01:00 |
| Country/organisation of origin | Francja (FR) |
| Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
| WWW | Here |
| Categories | |
| Perigee | 483 km |
| Apogee | 498 km |
Additional information PICSAT
PicSat is a French nano-satellite, a CubeSat made of 3 units (3U), designed to measure the transit of the planet Beta Pictoris b in front of its star Beta Pictoris. PicSat was designed and built by a small team of scientists and engineers led by Dr. Sylvestre Lacour, astrophysicist and instrumentalist at the High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics group of the LESIA laboratory at the Paris Observatory / PSL Research University / CNRS. The satellite was launched on January 12, 2018. It operated for more than 10 weeks, then fell silent on March 20, 2018.
satellite PICSAT Date of exalting 12.01.2018y.Photos PICSAT Photos: 5
