BelKa 1 - Baumanets 1 - Unisat 4 - PicPot - Calpoly CP 1 & CP 2
HAUSAT 1 - ICE Cube 1 & 2 - ION - KUTESat - Mea Huakai - MEROPE
nCube 1 - Rincon 1 - SACRED - SEEDS - AeroCube 1

Launch data: Designation  06F03 Launch date  26 Jul 2006 - 19:43 UT Launch site  B, LC-109/95 Launch vehicle  Dnepr-1 Mission   Perigee / Apogee   km Inclination  ° Period   min

CP-1

CP-2

Spacecraft data: Prime contractor   Operator   Platform   Mass at launch   kg Dry Mass   kg Basic shape   Dimension (m)   Solar array   Stabilization   DC power

ION satellite

PicPot satellite

Mission details:

• Kosmotras launched a Dnepr rocket from Baykonur on Jul 26, carrying a large number of small satellites. The rocket was destroyed when the first stage engine failed.
• The 750 kg BelKA satellite was the first owned by Belarus; it was built in Russia by Energiya using the Viktoria (Yamal) bus and carried a 2.5m resolution pan camera and a 10m resolution multispectral camera for Earth observation.
• The 12 kg Unisat-4 is a technology satellite from the Universita di Roma "La Sapienza". It carried cameras, a GPS nav experiment and an aerodynamic reentry device experiment.
• The 92 kg Baumanets is a student satellite from the MGTU (Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenniy Tekhnicheskiy Universitet) im. N.E. Baumann, the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. It carried an Earth imager and an amateur radio link.
• PICPOT (Piccolo Cubo del Politecnico di Torino) is a small 2 kg, 0.15m cube satellite from the Politecnico di Torino. It carried an Earth imager.
• The vehicle carried five P-POD picosatellite deployers each with three cubesats of 1 kg mass, 0.1m size. (ION is the exception, consisting of a double cubesat 2 kg, 0.1 x 0.2m).
  • P-POD 1 carried Arizona SACRED and the University of Illinois ION.
  • P-POD 2 carried Arizona RINCON, Cornell ICECube-1, and Kansas KUTESat Pathfinder.
  • P-POD 3 carried Nihon University/Japan SEEDS, Norway nCube and S. Korea HAUSAT-1.
  • P-POD 4 carried Montana MEROPE, Cal Poly CP2, and AerospaceCorp. AeroCube-1.
  • P-POD 5 carried CalPoly CP1, Hawaii Voyager and Cornell ICECube-2.
• According to mission control officials, the engines of the Dnepr rocket shut down 86 seconds into its flight. The rocket crashed some 25km (15 miles) away, without causing injuries on the ground, but all satellites on board were destroyed.