KEPLER-0 (KIPP)

Launched together with: Jilin 1-07 & 08 - KIPP - Huai′an - QTT 1 - Xiaoxiang 2

Prime manufacturer
Platform	3U cubesat
Operator	Kepler Communications of Toronto
Mass at launch	kg
Dry Mass	kg
Basic shape
Dimension (m)
Equipment
Solar array
Stabilization
Propulsion
DC power
Design lifetime

KIPP is the first Canadian satellite launched on a Chinese rocket, and the first commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite to use Ku-band frequencies. Nicknamed KIPP after a robot in the 2014 sci-fi movie “Interstellar,” the 30-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter nanosatellite is the first of two demonstration satellites Scotland′s Clyde Space built for Kepler, which aims to deploy a constellation of 140 satellites to connect devices on Earth and in space.
KIPP, a 3U cubesat for Kepler Communications of Toronto, to server as a pathfinder for their proposed constellation.

Ref.: #7(JR745), #228 - update: 07.01.19