SwissCube 1

Spacecraft n°:

Switzerland spacecraft n°: 1

Launch data: Designation  35935 / 09051E Launch date  23 Sep 2009 - 06:21 UT Launch site  Sriharikota Launch vehicle  PSLV-CA Mission  Civil: Technology Development / Science Sun-Synchronous LEO Earth orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  714 x 724 km Eccentricity  7.05E-04 Inclination  98.34 deg Period  99.17 min

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Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• Overall SwissCube project development is primarily to educate students in space technologies and space system engineering.
• ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, launched Oceansat-2 on Sep 23, a remote sensing satellite with an 8-band ocean color monitor, a radar scatterometer and a radio occultation atmospheric sounder. It also deployed four 1 kg Cubesats, and carried two Rubin maritime communications packages which remain attached to the PSLV final stage.