CUTE-1.7 + APD II

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CUTE-1.7 + APD II
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: JapanJapan Japan
COSPAR-ID : 2008-021C
Mission dates
Dimensions: 3 kg
Begin: April 28, 2008 at 03:53 UTC
Starting place: SHAR SLP
Launcher: PSLV-CA
Status: active
Orbit data
Orbit inclination : 97.8 °
Apogee height :  629 km
Perigee height :  606 km

CUTE-1.7 + APD II ( CUbical Tokyo Tech Engineering satellite 1.7 , also OSCAR 65 ) is a Japanese small satellite that was built as a student project at the Tokyo University of Technology . It was launched on April 28, 2008 with an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket.

construction

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 carries 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.

Its predecessor CUTE-1.7 + APD ( OSCAR 56) was launched on February 21, 2006 with a Japanese MV .

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  1. ↑ April 2013