First-MOVE

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First-MOVE
Type: Technology testing
Country: GermanyGermany Germany
Operator: Technical University of Munich
Mission dates
Dimensions: 1 kg
Size: 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm
Begin: November 21, 2013, 07:10 UTC
Starting place: Jasny Cosmodrome
Launcher: Dnepr
Status: active
Orbit data

First-MOVE ( Munich Orbital Verification Experiment ) is the first picosatellite of the Department of Space Technology at the TU Munich .

The satellite was developed from 2006 to 2012 and, after several postponements, was launched on November 21, 2013 as one of many secondary payloads of DubaiSat 2 with a Russian Dnepr launcher.

Technical specifications

The satellite has its uplink for packet radio in the 70-centimeter band and its downlink in the 2-meter band , the other payload consists of a solar cell experiment and a color camera.

First-MOVE is a so-called 1U- Cubesat and is therefore cube-shaped with an edge length of 10 cm and a total mass of 1 kg. The satellite has two fold-out solar panels, each with four additional solar cells. This means that 12 standard cells and four additional experimental cells are accommodated on MOVE. The satellite has a specially developed on-board computer with various security boards. Furthermore, a commercially available power supply system and an amateur radio - transceiver integrated. As additional sensors in addition to the camera, four sun sensors have been developed and manufactured in cooperation with Denmark's Technical University (DTU).

literature

  • Manuel Czech, Andreas Fleischner, Ulrich Walter: A First-MOVE in Satellite Development at the TU-München. In: Rainer Sandau, Hans-Peter Roeser, Arnoldo Valenzuela (Eds.): Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation: New Developments and Trends. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, pages 235–245.

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