Chasqui 1

Spacecraft nº:

Peruan spacecraft nº: 4

Launch data: Designation  40117 / 1998-067ET Launch date  05 Feb 2014 - hand-launched from ISS on Aug 18, 2014 - 14:23 UT Launch site  Baik, LC-1/5 Launch vehicle  Soyus-U Mission   Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  301 x 313 km Eccentricity   Inclination  51.6 ° Period  90.5 min

Description:

• Chasqui 1 is a Peruvian nanosatellite built by the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Peru.
• The 1 kg satellite is built on the 1U-CubeSat form factor. It is powered by fixed solar cells on each side to charge their batteries. The payload consist of a camera operting in the visible and infra-red spectrum.

Mission details:

• Launched on February 5, 2014 on board of the Progress-M 22M cargo craft to the ISS to be deployed from the ISS Kibo airlock.
• On Aug 18, 2014 astronauts Skvortsov and Artemev (exp.40) made spacewalk VKD-39 from the Pirs module. The airlock was depressurized at 1340 UTC and the hatch opened at 1402 UTC.
  At 1423 UTC Artemev hand-launched the 1U cubesat Chasqui-1, a joint Peruvian-Russian project. Chasqui-1 was built by the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in Lima and the Yugo-Zapadniy gosudarstvenniy universitet (Southwest State University) in Kursk.