D-Star ONE v.1.1 Phoenix

Launch data: Designation  ? / 18014? Launch date  01 Feb 2018 - 02:07 UTC Launch site  Vo, LC-1S Launch vehicle  Soyuz-2-1a Fregat-M Mission  Communication Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  570? x 590? km Eccentricity   Inclination  97.7? ° Period   min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• D-Star One is a 3U CubeSat designed and built by German Orbital Systems as a technology demonstration for their planned CubeSat communications constellation.
• The satellite is equipped with two D-Star communication modules onboard. These modules will be fully dedicated to the amateur radio community. Subsequent satellites will have enhanced capabilities and address larger potential customer groups.
• The first D-Star One satellite was launched on 28 November 2017 as a copassenger on a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M rocket, but was lost due to an upper stage problem.

Mission details:

• The third orbital launch from Russia′s Vostochniy spaceport was a success, following the failure of a Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch in November. This time the rocket was a Soyuz-2-1A/Fregat.
  The Soyuz third stage was suborbital; the Fregat made two burns to a circular 505 km orbit and deployed two imaging satellites in the Russian government′s Kanopus-V series. After two more Fregat burns to a 580 km orbit, 9 small satellites were deployed: four 8 kg, 24-cm S-NET satellites for the Technical University of Berlin, four 3U cubesats for Spire Global, and a re-flight of the D-Star One communications cubesat design for German Orbital Systems, whose first D-Star One was lost in the failure of the previous Vostochniy launch (28 Nov 2017).

External links:

• D-STARE ONE website: Satellite Information