Ruby (satellite)

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Rubin is the name of a series of small satellites and secondary payloads from the Bremen-based company OHB Technology .

The Rubin payloads are used to test a satellite communications payload that satellites can use to transmit their data to Earth via the Orbcomm satellite communications system. Rubin-2 had an additional amateur radio payload on board. Later Ruby payloads also tested an automatic identification system (AIS) for receiving ship signals.

The Rubin experiments take advantage of opportunities to fly when larger satellites were launched.They were either permanently connected to the last stage of the launcher as additional payloads (Rubin 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9), stand-alone satellites (Rubin 2) or additional payloads on board Satellite (ruby 6).

Satellites

The following Rubin satellites and payloads have been launched so far:

  • Rubin 1 ( Bird-Rubin ) as a secondary payload on the second stage of Kosmos-3M on July 15, 2000
  • Rubin 2 ( AATiS - OSCAR 49 ), free-flying satellite on a Dnepr-1 launched on December 20, 2002. The satellite measures 0.4 m × 0.4 m × 0.3 m and has a payload of around 40 kg.
  • Rubin 3 as a secondary payload on the second stage of Kosmos-3M on November 28, 2002
  • Rubin 4 as a secondary payload on the second stage of Kosmos-3M on September 27, 2003
  • Rubin 5 as a secondary payload on the second stage of Kosmos-3M on October 27, 2005
  • Rubin 6 as the communications payload of the AGILE satellite on April 23, 2007
  • Rubin 7 as a secondary payload with automatic identification system (AIS) for receiving ship signals on the second stage of Kosmos-3M when SAR-Lupe -3 was launched on November 1st, 2007
  • Rubin 8 as a secondary payload on the fourth stage of a PSLV on April 28, 2008 for the transmission of signals from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for ships on behalf of ESA
  • Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2 as secondary payloads with an automatic identification system (AIS) for receiving ship signals on the fourth stage of a PSLV on September 23, 2009, with the upper stage of the Indian rocket PSLV C-14

Web links

  • Indulis Kalnins, Manfred Fuchs: Small- and Nano-Satellites from Bremen. (pdf) Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Science, February 15, 2008, p. 41 , archived from the original on April 5, 2014 ; accessed on June 20, 2016 (English, lecture for a commercial college).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RUBIN-2 small satellite successful in ORBIT. OHB, December 20, 2002, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  2. ↑ OHB's Rubin-3 satellite successfully launched. OHB, November 28, 2002, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Small satellites KAISTSAT 4 and Rubin-4 in target orbit. OHB, September 27, 2003, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  4. ↑ COSMOS missile successfully deployed its payloads. OHB, October 27, 2005, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  5. ^ Gunter Krebs: Rubin 3-DSI, 4-DSI. March 9, 2013, accessed January 13, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Third SAR-Lupe satellite successfully starts its earth orbit. OHB also has an automatic identification system (AIS) on board the COSMOS rocket for receiving ship signals. OHB, November 1, 2007, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  7. ↑ The Indian PSLV missile successfully brings RUBIN-8 into its orbit. OHB, April 28, 2008, accessed September 25, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: PSLV-C14 brings five satellites into space. raumfahrer.net, September 23, 2009, accessed on September 25, 2009 .