ArduSat X

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Launch data: Designation  39414 / 98067DC Launch date  03 Aug 2013 - 19:48 UT Launch site  Tanegashima, YLP-2 Launch vehicle  H-2B-304 Mission  Technology, education Ejected from ISS  19 Nov 2013 - 12:18 UT Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  380 x 386 km Eccentricity   Inclination  51.6 deg Period  92.1 min

Description:

• ArduSat 1 (Arduino Satellite)) and Ardusat X are two 1U CubeSats, whose mission is to provide a platform on which students and DIY space enthusiasts may design and run their own space - based Arduino experiments. They are being built as a crowd-funded project by NanoSatisfi Inc.
• The satellite’s primary payload is bank of Arduino processors on which student/DIY code may run. The Arduino processors may sample data from the satellite’s imaging payload, a 1.3 megapixel optical CMOS camera module, and/or any of the satellite’s on board sensors, which includes photolux sensor, IR temperature, PCB temperature, 3-axis magnetometer, Geiger counter, 6-DOF IMU, and MEMS gyros.
• The two ArduSats are launched on board of HTV 4 to the International Space Station, from where they will be deployed.

Mission details:

• On Nov 19, 2013 a J-SSOD cubesat deployer was retrieved from the Kibo module airlock by the JEM RMS arm and moved to a deployment position; at 1218 UTC it ejected three 1U cubesats - PicoDragon for Vietnam, and two Ardusats for a demonstration of spaceborne Arduino processors for the US company NanoSatisfi.

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