UKube-1
| UKube-1 | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Technology testing satellite amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 United Kingdom
|
| Operator: | UK Space Agency , AMSAT-UK |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2014-037F |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 4 kg |
| Size: | 10 cm × 10 cm × 30 cm |
| Begin: | July 8, 2014, 15:58 UTC |
| Starting place: | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| Launcher: | Fregat-M |
| Status: | Out of service |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 97.0 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 98.4 ° |
| Apogee height : | 627.9 km |
| Perigee height : | 620.2 km |
UKube-1 (United Kingdom Universal Bus Experiment 1) is a nanosatellite project of the UK Space Agency which is used for technology testing and also carries an amateur radio payload. UKube-1 is the first satellite of the UK Space Agency, founded in 2010.
target
The UKube-1 program was born out of a collaboration between the UK space agency, industry and science. This should enable the UK to fly educational packages on satellites, test new technologies and conduct new space exploration quickly and efficiently. UKube-1 was intended as a pilot project for a UK CubeSat program.
construction
UKube-1 is a 3U CubeSat that has all the major subsystems of larger satellites and carries four main payloads:
- Janus (Random Number Generator using Single Event Upsets), a device from EADS Astrium Ltd. to generate random numbers through single event upsets .
- TOPCAT (Topside Ionosphere Computer Assisted Tomography), a device used to measure space weather conditions . The device uses GPS to create tomograms of space weather in the upper ionosphere and the plasma sphere. TOPCAT is a project by the University of Bath .
- C3D (Compact CMOS Camera Demonstrator) is used to test CMOS sensors for cameras with regard to the single event effects in space and the provision of images from orbit.
- FUNcube is a payload that was developed by AMSAT-UK in collaboration with ISIS (Innovative Solutions in Space BV). The project includes a linear transponder from 435 MHz to 145 MHz for amateur radio service and experimental telemetry for schoolchildren and students.
mission
The satellite was launched on July 8, 2014 at 15:58 UTC with a Fregat-M rocket together with Meteor M2 , MKA-FKI, SkySat-2, TechDemoSat1 and AISSAT-2 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . In October 2015, after 14 months, the nominal mission was declared completed. The satellite was then monitored and used by radio amateurs. UKcube-1 failed in 2018, the last telemetry was received on October 18, 2018.
Frequencies
- 145.840 MHz main telemetry downlink CW or 1k2-9k6 BPSK
- 145.915 MHz FUNcube-2 telemetry 1k2 BPSK AX.25
- 145.930-145.950 MHz downlink (400 mW linear transponder, SSB / CW)
- 435.080-435.060 MHz uplink linear transponder
- 2,401.0 MHz S-band downlink ( QPSK - OQPSK )
- 437.425-437.525 MHz spread spectrum
Web links
- ESA: UKube-1 (United Kingdom Universal Bus Experiment 1) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ciprian Sufitchi: UKUBE December 1 , 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Herbert J. Kramer: UKube-1 (United Kingdom Universal Bus Experiment 1). Accessed December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ UK Space Agency: UKube-1 completes mission. October 27, 2015, accessed December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Frey HB9SKA: OSCAR News (43rd week 2018). October 22, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018 .