Triton-1

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Launch data: Designation  39427 / 13066M Launch date  21 Nov 2013 - 07:10 UT Launch site  Do, LC-370/13 Launch vehicle  Dnepr Mission  Technology Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  600 x 771 km Eccentricity   Inclination   97.8° Period  98.3 min

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Description:

• Triton 1 is a 3U CubeSat nanosats developed by ISIS-BV (Innovative Solutions In Space BV) to test new technologies in space.
• The purpose of the Triton satellites is a radio science mission which aims to test an experimental advanced AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver. Telemetry decoding software will be made available which will allow radio amateur operators to listen to periodic downlink broadcasts containing housekeeping telemetry, payload telemetry as well as received AIS messages.
• 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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