Max Valier Sat

Launch data: Designation  42778 / 17036P Launch date  23 Jun 2017 - 03:59 UT Launch site  Sriharikota, FLP Launch vehicle  PSLV-XL Mission  X-ray, Astronomy Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  497 x 513 km Eccentricity   Inclination   ° Period  97.5 min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• It is built in collaboration by the Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, the Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran and the Amateurastronomen "Max Valier". The Max Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik Garching provides the small X-ray telescope µRosi, which allows amateur astronomers for the first time to see the sky in X-ray wavelength. OHB-System provides support and the launch opportunity on an indian PSLV rocket.
• The full attitude controlled satellite will scan the sky for bright X-ray sources. Originally a LuxSpace AIS Receiver and a CMOS camera were to be on board, but these were dropped during development.
• The X-ray telescope will have scanned the whole sky after half a year. The data will be evaluated and published by amateur astronomers. The spacecraft mechanical design basic idea follows a flat satellite concept with direct integration of spacecraft components and electronic boards into load carrying unibody structure. The spacecraft will have a body mounted non deployable sun pointed solar array.

External links:

• Max Valier homepage: Satellite Information
• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking