BeakerSat-1

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Launch data: (Orenburg, Russia) Designation  39437 / 13066X Launch date  21 Nov 2013 - 07:10 UT Launch site  Do, LC-370/13 Launch vehicle  Dnepr Mission   Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee   km Eccentricity   Inclination   ° Period   min

Description:

• Beakersat 1, also called Eagle 1 or SWEsat, is a FemtoSat built to the 2.5U PocketQub form factor (12.5 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm).
• The satellite is designed and Built by Undergraduate students at Morehead State University.
• The approach taken on designing the subsytems bus for the PocketQube is to integrate a circuit with a Pic18F25K22 processor along with circuitry that contains components that will measure values such as: battery current and voltage; on-board temperature of the radio and processor; solar panel voltage, current, and temperature; and external temperature-- providing telemetry for the satellite and space environment monitoring. These values will be transmitted to the ground station via Morse code through an on-board RFM22 transceiver.
• The satellite will be deployed from the Italian UniSat 5 satellite from a MR-FOD (Morehead Roma Femtosat Orbital Deployer) deployer after launch on a Dnepr booster.
• The flight saw the launch of the first PocketQubes, ejected from Unisat-5.
  • The 1P size are 0.15 kg 5 x 5 x 5cm cubes:
    $50Sat (Eagle-2, 50DollarSat) from Morehead State Univ.
    WREN from StaDoKo (spinoff company of the Univ. Aachen).
    Pocket-PUCP was further nested inside PUCPSat-1 and it is not clear if it has been ejected yet.
  • 2.5P PocketQubes deployed were:
    BeakerSat (Eagle-1) from Morehead State Univ.
    QubeScout-S1 from U.Maryland/Baltimore County