ZACube-1
| ZACube-1 | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Training in technology testing weather satellite |
| Country: |
 South Africa
|
| Operator: | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2013-066B |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 1.23 kg |
| Size: | 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm |
| Begin: | November 21, 2013 07:10:17 UTC |
| Starting place: | Jasny Cosmodrome LC-370/13 |
| Launcher: | Dnepr |
| Status: | active |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 97.2 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.6 ° |
| Apogee height : | 675.0 km |
| Perigee height : | 591.3 km |
ZACube-1 , also TshepisoSat , is a South African 1U- Cubesat , which is used for space weather research. The second name Tshepiso means promise in the Sesotho language . The satellite was developed by students from Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa. The project started at the beginning of 2011. The ZACUBE-1 position and path control system was developed in cooperation between the French South African Institute of Technology and the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch , South Africa.
The main payload is a beacon transmitter in the 20 m band, which is used to characterize the earth's ionosphere and to calibrate the aurora radar system of the South African space agency SANSA in the SANAE-IV station in Antarctica.
mission
It was launched on November 21, 2013 with a Dnepr launcher from the Jasny Cosmodrome in Russia together with the main payload DubaiSat 2 and 29 other satellites. The mission is considered successful.
Frequencies
- 145.860 MHz uplink
- 437.345 MHz downlink FM 1k2 AFSK AX.25, 9k6 GMSK, CW
- 14,099 MHz shortwave beacon