Pico Dragon
| Pico Dragon | |
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| Country: |
 Vietnam
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| Operator: | VNSC |
| COSPAR-ID : | 1998-067DB |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 1 kg |
| Size: | 10 x 10 x 11.35 cm 3 |
| Begin: | August 3, 2013, 19:48 UTC |
| Starting place: | Tanegashima Space Center |
| Launcher: | H-IIB |
| Orbit data | |
Pico Dragon was a Vietnamese technology testing and amateur radio satellite .
Structure and payload
Pico Dragon was a 1U size Cubesat . The main payload consisted of a camera. The satellite permanently sent a beacon / telemetry signal on the amateur radio frequencies 437.250 MHz in Morse code and 437.365 MHz in AX.25 .
Mission history
Pico Dragon was launched on August 3, 2013 19:48 UTC from Tanegashima Space Center on board the Japanese space freighter HTV-4 together with the small satellites TechEdSat 3 , ArduSat X and ArduSat 1 with an H-IIB to the space station ISS . On November 19, 2013, the CubeSat was launched into space from board the ISS using a launch device and operated by the Vietnam National Satellite Center .
On February 28, 2014, the satellite burned up in the earth's atmosphere.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pico Dragon in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 28, 2014 (English).
- ↑ VỆ TINH SIÊU NHỎ (PICO DRAGON) CỦA VIỆT NAM ĐÃ ĐƯỢC TÀU VẬN TẢI HTV4 CỦA NHẬT BẢN ĐƯA VÀO KHÔNG GIAN. VNSC, 2013, archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; Retrieved May 28, 2014 (Vietnamese).
- ↑ Gunter Krebs: PicoDragon. Gunter's Space Page, August 3, 2013, accessed August 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Vietnam CubeSat PicoDragon. AMSAT-UK, August 3, 2013, accessed August 4, 2013 .
- ↑ space-track.org