UGATUSAT

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Launch data: Designation  35869 / 09049E Launch date  17 Sep 2009 - 15:55 UT Launch site  B, LC-31/6 Launch vehicle  Soyuz-2-1b / Fregat Mission  Civil: Technology Development / Eart Observation Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  815 x 823 km Eccentricity  5.56E-04 Inclination  98.8 deg Period  101.27 min

Mission details:

• Goals of the mission are to provide experience to the students in operating a satellite, to develop a satellite control system and to provide earth observation to monitor water and forrest resources.
• At 1745 UTC, three more satellites were ejected from the adapter truss on Fregat: Sterkh No. 12L, the second dedicated search-and-rescue satellite for the Russian Space Agency; Universitetskiy/Tat'yana-2, a 90 kg space physics research satellite built by students at MGU (Moscow State University); and UGATUSAT, a small 35 kg remote sensing satellite for the Ufimskiy Gosudarstvenniy Aviatsionniy Tekhnicheskiy Universitet (Ufa State Aviation Technical University) in Bashkortostan, a Russian autonomous republic.