CP 4

US

Spacecraft n°:

US satellite n°:

CalPoly 4
Also called: PolySAT 4

Launch data:

Designation	31132 / 07012Q
Launch date	17 Apr 2007
Launch site	B, LC-109/95
Launch vehicle	Dnepr-1
Mission
LEO Earth orbit on:
Perigee / Apogee	649 x 770 km
Eccentricity	8.62E-03
Inclination	98.07°
Period	98.97 min

CP-4 in space

Spacecraft data:

Prime contractor	California Polytechnic State University
Operator
Platform
Mass at launch	1 kg
Dry Mass	1 kg
Basic shape
Dimension (m)
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime	1 yr

Mission details:

PPOD-A carried Aerocube 2 for the Aerospace Corp (El Segundo, Calif.); CSTB 1, the CubeSat TestBed for Boeing IDS/Advanced Systems (Huntington Beach, Calif.); and the Cal Poly CP4 cubesat.
Exact replica of CP-2 destroyed in Dnepr launch failure 7/06; primary missions are an energy dissipation experiment as well as a field-test of what is dubbed the CPX Bus.

Ref.: #7(JR579), #78a, #207, #226 - update: 28.11.09