First-MOVE
First-MOVE | |
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Type: | Technology testing |
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Operator: | Technical University of Munich |
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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.
Web links
- Official website
- Data sheet (PDF, 22 pages; 1.3 MB)
- Website at AMSAT