CUTE-1.7 + APD

CUTE-1.7 + APD
Type:	Amateur radio satellite
Country:	Japan
COSPAR-ID :	2006-005C
Mission dates
Begin:	February 21, 2006
Launcher:	MV
Re-entry :	October 25, 2009
Status:	burned up
Orbit data
Orbit inclination :	98.1 °
Apogee height :	155 km
Perigee height :	140 km

CUTE-1.7 + APD ( CUbical Tokyo Tech Engineering satellite 1.7 , also OSCAR 56 ) was a Japanese small satellite that was built as a student project at the Tokyo University of Technology and launched at the Uchinoura Space Center .

construction

The satellite was developed according to the Cubesat standard and has the shape of a cube with an edge length of 10 centimeters. Many commercially available components , such as a Hitachi NPD-20JWL PDA as a control computer and a USB hub for sensor data acquisition, were used as equipment.

He also carried out an experiment for observing charged particles in Earth orbit, which is based on an avalanche photodiode . Hence the suffix APD in the type designation.

The successor CUTE-1.7 + APD II ( OSCAR 65) was launched on April 28, 2008 with an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle .

See also

• CUTE (satellite)

Web links

• Project page (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ before re-entry