PharmaSat-1
| PharmaSat | |
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| Type: | Research satellite |
| Country: |
 United States
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| Operator: | NASA |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2009-028B |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 5 kg |
| Begin: | May 19, 2009 |
| Starting place: | Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport |
| Launcher: | Minotaur I |
| Re-entry : | August 14, 2012 |
| Status: | burned up |
| Railway data (Dec. 2011) | |
| Rotation time : | 93.2 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 40.5 ° |
| Apogee height : | 458 km |
| Perigee height : | 423 km |
PharmaSat-1 was a nanosatellite developed by NASA's Ames Research Center and a successor to the GeneSat-1 mission.
It was launched into space on May 19, 2009 with a Minotaur-1 rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport along with the TacSat-3 , AeroCube-3 , HawkSat-I and CP6 satellites. About 90 minutes after the start, the first radio contact could be made via the S-band communication system. The satellite was supposed to investigate the behavior of antimycotics in weightlessness, for which a miniaturized laboratory was on board, which was supposed to examine the growth of yeast with the help of optical sensors. In addition, the satellite carried an amateur radio transmitter that broadcast some status parameters of the satellite live on the frequency 437.465 MHz.
On August 14, 2012, the satellite burned up in the earth's atmosphere.
Web links
- Santa Clara University: PharmaSat Mission Dashboard ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Aerospace: Pharmasat. Archived from the original on May 9, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2015 .
- ↑ N2YO: Pharmasat ( Memento from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on N2YO.com
- ↑ Blog post on astronomie32.piranho.de , no longer available.