Pocket-PUCP

Spacecraft nº:

Peru spacecraft nº: 2

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

PUCPSat-1 and Pocket-PUCP. Credit: PUCP

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Pocket-PUCP is a Peruvian picosatellite to be deployed from the first Peruvian satellite, PUCP-Sat 1. It is built by the Institute for Radio Astronomy of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (INRAS-PUCP).
• The 127 g satellite will transmit temperature readings from internal sensors.
• The flight saw the launch of the first PocketQubes, ejected from Unisat-5.
  • The 1P size are 0.15 kg 5 x 5 x 5cm cubes:
    $50Sat (Eagle-2, 50DollarSat) from Morehead State Univ.
    WREN from StaDoKo (spinoff company of the Univ. Aachen).
    Pocket-PUCP was further nested inside PUCPSat-1 and it is not clear if it has been ejected yet.
  • 2.5P PocketQubes deployed were:
    BeakerSat (Eagle-1) from Morehead State Univ.
    QubeScout-S1 from U.Maryland/Baltimore County