AISSat 1

Spacecraft nº:

Norwegian spacecraft nº: 7

Launch data: Designation  36797 / 10035C Launch date  12 July 2010 - 03:52 UT Launch site  Sriharikota, SLP Launch vehicle  PSLV-CA Mission  Government: Technology development Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on Jul 12.34: Perigee / Apogee  619 x 636 km Eccentricity  1,21E-03 Inclination  98.15 deg Period  97.25 min

Photo of the AISSAT-1 spacecraft model (image credit: FFI)

Spacecraft data: Prime contractor  UTIAS Platform  Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB) Operator  UTIAS (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies) Mass at launch  6.5 kg Dry Mass   kg Basic shape  Cube + rod Dimension (m)  0.2 side Equipment  AIS-Receiver Solar array   Stabilization   DC power   Design lifetime  3 yrs

Illustration of the AISSat-1 nanosatellite (image credit: FFI, UTIAS/SFL)

Mission details:

• Equipped with instrument that receives and forwards Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals; will demonstrate maritime ship-tracking technologies.
• India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle made a successful flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island on Jul 12, 2010 placing the Cartosat 2B and Alsat-2A satellites in polar orbit.
• Also deployed by the PSLV-C15 mission were several smaller payloads:
  AISSat-1, built by UTIAS-Toronto for the Norwegian space center FFI with a ship-tracking payload; Studsat, a 1 kg picosatellite with a simple imager for remote sensing built by students in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and led by the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in Bangalore; and TISat-1 (Ticino Satellite 1), a 1 kg cubesat built by SUPSI (Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana) in the Italian-speaking Ticino region of Switzerland.

External links:

• EOportal.org Satellite description
• Satellite tracking: Real time satellite tracking