STUDSat

Spacecraft n°:

Indian spacecraft n°: 56

Launch data: Designation  36796 / 10035B Launch date  12 July 2010 - 03:52 UT Launch site  Sriharikota, SLP Launch vehicle  PSLV-CA Mission  Civil: Technology Development Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on Jul 12.27: Perigee / Apogee  622 x 637 km Eccentricity  1,07E-03 Inclination  98.15 deg Period  97.32 min

Spacecraft data: Prime contractor  ISRO/Team STUDSAT Platform  CubeSat Operator  Team STUDSAT Mass at launch  0.95 kg Dry Mass   kg Basic shape  Box + 4 antenna Dimension (m)  0.1 x 0.1 x 0.135 Equipment  CMOS camera Solar array   Stabilization   DC power   Design lifetime  6 months

Mission details:

• Perform remote sensing, and capture images of the surface of the earth using it's camera of resolution 90 m; the best resolution hitherto achieved by any pico satellite in the world.
• India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle made a successful flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island on Jul 12, 2010 placing the Cartosat 2B and Alsat-2A satellites in polar orbit.
• Also deployed by the PSLV-C15 mission were several smaller payloads:
  AISSat-1, built by UTIAS-Toronto for the Norwegian space center FFI with a ship-tracking payload; Studsat, a 1 kg picosatellite with a simple imager for remote sensing built by students in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and led by the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in Bangalore; and TISat-1 (Ticino Satellite 1), a 1 kg cubesat built by SUPSI (Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana) in the Italian-speaking Ticino region of Switzerland;.