Lambdasat

Spacecraft nº:

Greece spacecraft nº: 1

Launch data: Designation  40458 / 1998-067GB Launch date  13 Jul 2014 Launch site  WI, LA-0A Launch vehicle  Antares-120 Mission  Technology, Communication Launch platform  ISS Kibo, LEO Deployment date  04 Mar 2015 - 08:30 Perigee / Apogee  393 x 405 km Inclination  51.6 ° Period   min

Description:

• Lambdasat is a Greek 1U-CubeSat. It was built by Lambda Team, an international group of Greek scientists and students based in Silicon Valley (San Jose), CA, USA. It is the first Greece satellite.
• Lambdasat is a 1U Cubesat with deployable solar arrays, which unfold to a 3U envelope for increased power. Lambdasat carries four technologies eperiments to be demonstrated during flight.
• It carries an experiment, which measures the radiation effects on the graphene material in real environment in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It also carries an experimental AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver for tracking all the vessels inside its footprint around the globe.
• The communication consist of an Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) modem and makes use of the Iridium constellation. In addition one UHF transmitter and one UHF receiver will supplement the uplinks and downlinks of the satellite. All the electronics above are integrated and operated by one power system and a main computer which have been designed and built for Lambdasat.

Mission details:

• Lambdasat was launched on board of Cygnus CRS-2 to the International Space Station to be deployed from the Japanese airlock. About 30 days after deployment, Lambdasat will de-orbit.