UWE-4
| UWE-4 | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Education satellite , technology testing, amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 Germany
|
| Operator: | Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , Technical University of Dresden |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2018-111E |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 1 kg |
| Size: | 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm |
| Begin: | December 27, 2018, 02:07 UTC |
| Starting place: | Vostochny Cosmodrome |
| Launcher: | Soyuz-2-1a Fregat-M |
| Status: | in orbit |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 96.2 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.7 ° |
| Apogee height : | 594.0 km |
| Perigee height : | 578.1 km |
UWE-4 (University of Würzburg Experimental Satellite) is a German nanosatellite that was designed and built at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Technical University of Dresden . It launched into space at the end of 2018.
aims
The technical goal of the UWE-4 mission is to demonstrate and test an electric drive for CubeSats. UWE-4 is the first 1U CubeSat to carry such a drive. This drive called NanoFEEP (Nano Field Emission Electric Propulsion) was developed at the TU Dresden. The satellite also carries a Digipeater Packet Radio with a data rate of 9k6 and AX.25 protocol in the 70 cm band .
mission
UWE-4 was launched on December 27, 2018 together with the main payload, the Kanopus-V-5 and -6 satellites and 25 other small satellites, including D-Star ONE Sparrow , D-Star ONE iSat and ZACube-2 with a Soyuz-2 -1a Fregat-M launched from the Russian cosmodrome Vostochny .
Frequencies
- Uplink and downlink: 435.600 MHz (previously: 437.375 MHz)
Web links
- University of Würzburg [2] (English)