CAPE 2

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CAPE 2 (OSCAR 75)
Country: United StatesUnited States United States
COSPAR-ID : 2013-064C
Mission dates
Dimensions: 1 kg
Size: 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm
Begin: November 20, 2013, 01:15 UTC
Starting place: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0B
Launcher: Minotaur I
Status: in orbit
Orbit data
Rotation time : 93.4 min
Orbit inclination : 40.5 °
Apogee height :  458 km
Perigee height :  434 km

CAPE 2 ( Cajun Advanced Picosat Experiment , also OSCAR 75 or LO-75 ) is an American amateur radio satellite . It was built at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette . It was launched on November 20, 2013 as a secondary payload with a Minotaur rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport . After the successful launch, the satellite was also assigned the OSCAR number 75.

Structure and payload

CAPE 2 is a Cubesat satellite, size 1U. The main purpose is to educate students from the University of Louisiana.

The satellite's payloads are a speech signal converter, text-to-speech functionality, tweeting , a digipeater , file storage and transmission and a DTMF query option. The beacon uses the callsign K5QXJ, the telemetry W5UL.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Orbit data according to CAPE-2. N2YO, May 25, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 .
  2. ^ Gunter Krebs: CAPE 2 (OSCAR 75, LO 75). - Gunter's Space Page, May 5, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Mike Rupprecht: CAPE-2. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .