Rubin 9-AIS

Spacecraft n°:

German spacecraft n°: 61

Launch data: Designation  35936 / 09051F Launch date  23 Sep 2009 - 06:21 UT Launch site  Sriharikota Launch vehicle  PSLV-CA Mission  Technology Perigee / Apogee   km Eccentricity   Inclination   deg Period   min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Rubin 9 consists of two payloads Rubin-9.1 and Rubin-9.2 weighing 8 kg each and will primarily be used for the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for Maritime applications. These are non-separable payloads that are mounted at an angle of 45deg to the PSLV EB deck.
• Rubin-9.1 (AIS-Pathfinder 2) is developed by Luxspace, a daughter of OHB-System, and has a mission objective of providing an insight into the issue of message collisions that limit detection in areas of dense shipping.
• The main purpose of the OHB-System developed Rubin-9.2 payload is to test and qualify nano technologies from Angstrom company Sweden and to continue space based maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver experiments (started with Rubin-7 and Rubin-8 missions). Rubin-9.2 is similar to the Rubin-8 launched on PSLV-C9 in April 2008.

Mission details:

• ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, launched Oceansat-2 on Sep 23, a remote sensing satellite with an 8-band ocean color monitor, a radar scatterometer and a radio occultation atmospheric sounder. It also deployed four 1 kg Cubesats, and carried two Rubin maritime communications packages which remain attached to the PSLV final stage.