SOMP

SOMP
Country:	Germany Germany
Operator:	Technical University Dresden
COSPAR-ID :	2013-015E
Mission dates
Dimensions:	1 kg
Size:	10 × 10 × 10 cm
Begin:	April 19, 2013, 10:00 UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur
Launcher:	Soyuz-2.1a
Orbit data
Orbit inclination :	64.9 °
Apogee height :	581 km
Perigee height :	554 km

SOMP ( English Students Oxygen Measurement Project for Student oxygen measurement project ) is a Technologieerprobungs- and amateur radio satellite , the students in the fields of aerospace engineering, mechatronics, computer science, energy technology and physics at the Technical University of Dresden was developed.

The professorship for space systems (head: Martin Tajmar ) of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering led the project. The operation of the satellite is or was supported by the German Amateur Radio Club , local association Saxonia Dresden, which operates the ground station at the vocational training center for electrical engineering in Dresden.

Structure and payload

SOMP is a 1U size Cubesat . The main payload consists of oxygen sensors developed in-house, which should investigate the properties of oxygen at an altitude of approx. 600 km. The satellite sends or broadcast a beacon signal on 437.485 MHz permanently. His amateur radio callsign is DP0TUD.

Mission history

SOMP was launched on April 19, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. ( UTC ) from Baikonur together with the biosatellite Bion-M1 and the five small satellites OSSI 1 , AIST 2 , Beesat-2 , Beesat-3 and Dove-2 with a Soyuz 2.1a missile launched. The small satellites initially remained on a special holder of the Bion-M1 capsule and were only released later.

literature

Andreas Weber and Thomas Hetland: TU Dresden starts satellite project SOMP. In: Funkamateur, May 2013, page 571.

Web links

SOMP on the TU Dresden website (archived 2013)
SOMP at AMSAT-UK
SOMP on Gunter's Space Page

Individual evidence

↑ April 2013
↑ Peter Koller: Dresden students provide Saxony with the first satellite. Elektronik Praxis, April 17, 2013, accessed April 21, 2013 .
^ SOMP: operation and amateur radio. TU Dresden, April 19, 2013, archived from the original on May 3, 2013 ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 .
↑ First Saxon satellite takes off into space. MDR, April 19, 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 21, 2013 .
↑ Russian biosatellite launched with small animals. In: Sputnik News. RIA Novosti, April 19, 2013, accessed April 20, 2013 .

[1] April 2013

[ep20130417-2] Peter Koller: Dresden students provide Saxony with the first satellite. Elektronik Praxis, April 17, 2013, accessed April 21, 2013 .

[somp_funk-3] SOMP: operation and amateur radio. TU Dresden, April 19, 2013, archived from the original on May 3, 2013 ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 .

[mdr20130419-4] First Saxon satellite takes off into space. MDR, April 19, 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 21, 2013 .

[ria200130419-5] Russian biosatellite launched with small animals. In: Sputnik News. RIA Novosti, April 19, 2013, accessed April 20, 2013 .