TISat-1

Spacecraft n°:

Switzerland spacecraft n°: 2

Launch data: Designation  36799 / 10035E 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 12.54: Perigee / Apogee  617 x 639 km Eccentricity  1,57E-03 Inclination  98.16 deg Period  97.28 min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Students and Staff of SUPSI-DTI have designed and built the first swiss all SUP-made student-class satellite.
• The objectives of the CubeSat mission are:
  • Monitoring of the durability of exposed thin bonding wires, PCB tracks and lines (Atomic Oxygen effects).
  • Verification of the system fault tolerance scheme.
  • Acquisition of spacecraft environment and operating data.
  • All firmware, in house developped baseband modulation schemes.
  • Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) components wherever possible.

Mission details:

• 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;.