Ecuador-UTE-YuZGU Satellite

Ecuador-UTE-YuZGU
Spacecraft Ecuador-UTE-YuZGU (UTE-UESOR, Ekvador-UTE-YuZGU)
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Status Was semi-operational until 2017-07-30, 2 weeks.
Launched 2017-07-14
NORAD ID 42832
Deployer EXOpod 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher Sojuz-2-1a
Organization Tecnologica Equinoccial University (UTE)
Institution University
Entity type Academic / Education
Headquarters Ecuador
Launch brokerer Exolaunch
Partners State University of Southwest Russia (UESOR)
Oneliner

Educational training and amateur radio mission.

Description

Obtain scientific data in the study of our planet Earth techniques and develop nanosatellite management methods and study the behavior of new instruments in space. Device that produces an answer when a radio call-frequency, which will be transmitted to Earth information from the two universities with pre-recorded messages in real time is received.

Failure cause Low batteries. Failed due to a malfunctioning Fregat attitude control thruster. Damage to CubeSat solar cells?
Sources [1]
Photo sources [1]
On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-05-29

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