OPTOS

Spacecraft nº:

Netherlands spacecraft nº: 11

Launch data: Designation  39420 / 13066E Launch date  21 Nov 2013 - 07:10 UT Launch site  Do, LC-370/13 Launch vehicle  Dnepr Mission  Technology Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  601 x 803 km Eccentricity   Inclination   97.8° Period  98.7 min

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Description:

• OPTOS is a low-cost 3 Unit CubeSat project of INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial). The objective is to demonstrate new technologies in spacecraft development such as:
  • A distributed OBDH (On-Board Data Handling) subsystem based on FPGAs (Floating Point Gate Arrays), and CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices),
  • An optical wireless communication system (OBCom) with a reduced CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol,
  • The internal structure is based on composite materials
• Cubesats deployed from the Dnepr final stage were:
  • Dove-3, a 3U imaging satellite from PlanetLabs, San Francisco;
  • GOMX-1, a 6kg 2U cubesat test an ADS-B air traffic control receiver, for GOMSpace, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • OPTOS, a 3U satellite from INTA of Spain;
  • Delfi-n3Xt, a 3U cubesat from Delft U. of Tech.;
  • Triton-1, a 3U test of an AIS receiver from ISIS b.v., Netherlands;
  • KHUSAT-1 and 2 3U cubesats from Kyung Hee U., Seoul, to join the CINEMA constellation;
  • Cubebug-2 'Manolito' (2U) from Argentina,
  • NEE-2 'Krysaor' from Ecuadorian Space Agency,
  • ZACUBE-1 'Tshepiso' from South Africa's Cape Peninsula U. of Tech (CPUT);
  • VELOX-P2 from Singapore's Nanyang Tech U., UWE-3 from U. Wurzburg, and First-MOVE from Tech. U. Munich;
  • FUNCUBE-1 for AMSAT-UK, and Hincube-1 from Narvik University College.

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