ITU-pSat 1

Spacecraft n°:

Turkey spacecraft n°: 7

Launch data: Designation  35934 / 09051D Launch date  23 Sep 2009 - 06:21 UT Launch site  Sriharikota Launch vehicle  PSLV-CA Mission  Technology Development Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  710 x 725 km Eccentricity  1.06E-03 Inclination  98.34 deg Period  99.13 min

Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• Turkey's first university satellite; raise experienced staff on satellite systems in our country, and also to serve as a practical ground for the theoretically equipped graduate and undergraduate students of ITU Astronautics Department.
• ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, launched Oceansat-2 on Sep 23, a remote sensing satellite with an 8-band ocean color monitor, a radar scatterometer and a radio occultation atmospheric sounder. It also deployed four 1 kg Cubesats, and carried two Rubin maritime communications packages which remain attached to the PSLV final stage.