TIsat-1
| TIsat-1 | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Cubesat |
| Country: |
 Switzerland
|
| Operator: | SUPSI |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2010-035E |
| Mission dates | |
| Begin: | July 12, 2010, 03:52 UTC |
| Starting place: | Satish Dhawan Space Center |
| Launcher: | PSLV C-15 |
| Status: | in operation |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 96.8 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 98 ° |
| Apogee height : | 652.5 km |
| Perigee height : | 621 km |
The TIsat-1 (TI is the abbreviation for the canton of Ticino ) is an amateur radio satellite that was developed and operated by students at the Swiss University of Applied Sciences SUPSI .
It is a Cubesat - small satellite with which the space suitability of various materials and components is checked: Both electrically conductive wires, which are made of various materials and have different diameters, and nylon threads are exposed to the atomic oxygen of the thin high atmosphere , who attacks these materials. A fault-tolerant, miniaturized on-board computer with three processors is also being tested.
TISat transmits on a frequency of 437.305 MHz (both radio beacon and telemetry ) in Morse telegraphy under the amateur radio call sign HB9DE.
The satellite was launched on July 12, 2010 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on a PSLV rocket as a secondary payload to the Indian Earth observation satellite Cartosat-2B . The radio station HB9SRC of the amateur radio club of the SUPSI is the ground station of TIsat.
Web links
- TIsat1 website of SUPSI (English)
- TIsat-1 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ TISat website: Radio license for ground station and satellite (Italian; PDF; 35 kB)
- ↑ TISat site: Payload
- ↑ TISat site: Communication