Norad ID: 51442
| Nazwa w katalogu Spacetrack | OBJECT TE |
| Wyniesienie na orbitę |
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| Data deorbitacji |
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| Dni na orbicie | 8764 |
| Kraj/organizacja pochodzenia | USA (US) |
| Miejsce startu | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
| WWW | Tutaj |
| Perygeum | 409 km |
| Apogeum | 421 km |
The PATCOOL CubeSat mission is a testbed for the performance of experimental cryogenic selective surface samples in LEO. To accurately portray the Sun?s affects on the samples, vehicle is kept zenith custom ADCS (attitude determination and pointing using a custom ADCS combining a single D3 boom with a tipmass and a magnetorquers for passive 3-axis stabilization. The PATCOOL software requirements can be considered a subset of D3.