AESP-14

Spacecraft nº:

Brazilian spacecraft nº: 24

Launch data: Designation  40389 / 98067FM Launch date  10 Jan 2015 - 09:47 UT Launch site  CC, SLC-40 Launch vehicle  Falcon-9 v1.1 Relised from Kibo, ISS  05 Feb 2015 - 12:50 UT Mission  Science, magnetosphere Earth orbit on Feb 6.67: Perigee / Apogee  398 x 406 km Eccentricity   Inclination  51.64 ° Period  92.50 min

Description:

• AESP-14 satellite is a brazilian 1U CubeSat, which was developed as a scientific and technological cooperation basically between the ITA with the LIT – INPE-MCT and other departments from the INPE, in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
• The payload of AESP-14 consists of a Langmuir Probe for measurement of electron density and temperature of the ionospheric plasma. The payload was developed in the department at Space and Atmospheric Sciences of INPE.

Mission details:

• AESP 14 was launched on board of Dragon CRS-5 (SC7) from Cape Canaveral on Jan 10, 2015.
• Inside Dragon are two PlanetLabs Flock-1d' cubesats and the AESP-14 1U cubesat from Brazil´s space agency AEB and the ITA technical institute. On Jan 12 Dragon was grappled by the SSRMS arm at 1054 UTC and berthed on the Harmony module at 1354 UTC. The cubesats were transferred internally to the Kibo module and will be deployed from the Kibo airlock. CATS was grappled by the Dextre robot on 2015 Jan 22 and unberthed from Dragon around 0700 UTC; it was then handed off to the JEM-RMS at around 1030 UTC and installed on the Kibo Exposed Facility at location EFU3 at about 1400 UTC.
• Brazil's AESP-14 cubesat was ejected at 12:50 UTC on Feb 5, but appears not to be transmitting.

External links:

• Satellite tracking: Real time satellite tracking