NEE-01 Pegaso
| NEE-01 Pegaso | |
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| Type: | Technology testing |
| Country: |
 Ecuador
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| Operator: | Agencia Espacial Civil Ecuatoriana |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2013-018B |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 1.26 kg |
| Size: | 10 cm × 10 cm × 75 cm (solar cells unfolded) |
| Begin: | April 26, 2013, 4:13 UTC |
| Starting place: | Jiuquan Cosmodrome, LC 43 |
| Launcher: | Long March 2D |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 97.4 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 98.1 ° |
| Apogee height : | 655.2 km |
| Perigee height : | 629.5 km |
NEE-01 Pegaso is the first Ecuadorian satellite.
construction
NEE-01 Pegaso was built by the Ecuadorian space agency EXA without foreign assistance. It is a 1U Cubesat class satellite . There are various cameras on board, with which, among other things, SSTV videos are recorded and sent to earth.
Mission history
Pegaso was launched together with Gaofen 1 and the secondary payloads TurkSat-3USat and CubeBug-1 on April 26, 2013 with a Long March 2D from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome . After the satellite had stabilized sufficiently, the solar cell boom could be folded out and the transmitter activated. A German radio amateur received the first signals from the satellite, and from May 16, images of the earth were also transmitted.
On May 23, 2013, Pegaso came too close to the remains of a Russian missile in orbit. Although a direct collision did not take place, Pegaso was probably hit peripherally by a piece of rubble and began to tumble uncontrollably, so that communication with the ground station is no longer possible.
The sister satellite NEE-02 Krysaor was launched on November 21st.
Web links
- NEE-01 Pegaso Official Project Homepage (Spanish)
- Technical data (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Orbit data according to NEE 01 PEGASUS. n2yo, May 27, 2013, accessed December 4, 2013 .
- ↑ NEE-01 PEGASO: El Primer Satellite Ecuatoriano. Ecuadorian Space Agency, accessed May 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Gunter Krebs: NEE 01 Pegaso. In: Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved May 2, 2013 .
- ↑ LA AGENCIA ESPACIAL ECUATORIANA PRESENTÓ OFICIALMENTE AL PRIMER SATÉLITE ECUATORIANO. EXA, April 4, 2011, accessed May 27, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ Satelite Pegaso emite señal. El Nacional, April 28, 2013, archived from the original on June 5, 2013 ; Retrieved May 27, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ La primera señal de satélite Pegaso fue reportada desde Alemania. El Universo, April 27, 2013, accessed May 27, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ Pegaso difundió imágenes desde el espacio. El Comercio, May 16, 2013, accessed May 27, 2013 (Spanish).
- ^ Ecuador Pegasus satellite fears over space debris crash. BBC, May 23, 2013, accessed May 27, 2013 .
- ↑ NEE-01 PEGASO SOBREVIVE COLISIÓN LATERAL CON RESTOS DE COHETE RUSO. EXA, May 23, 2013, accessed May 27, 2013 (Spanish).
- ↑ NEE-02 KRYSAOR: The Second Ecuadorian Satellite. EXA, September 17, 2013, accessed September 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Ecuador: Russian launcher launches nanosatellite “Krysaor” into space. Latinapress, November 21, 2013, accessed November 28, 2013 .