Spacecraft name | exactView-9 (EV-9, EV9) |
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Type | Nanosatellite |
Units or mass | 5.5 kg |
Status | Operational? (Lack of recent reports, but was operational when sold to Myriota in March 2020, but eoPortal is claiming end of life at 2020-09-28, exactly 5 years since launch. Assuming it still operational as of 2023-06-09) |
Launched | 2015-09-28 |
NORAD ID | 40936 |
Deployer | XPOD GNB (Experimental Push Out Deployer) [UTIAS/SFL] |
Launcher | PSLV |
Organization | ExactEarth |
Institution | Company |
Entity type | Commercial |
Country | Canada |
Manufacturer | AIVT by Space Flight Laboratory |
Operator | Space Flight Laboratory |
Launch brokerer | Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS-SFL), ? |
Partners | University of Toronto, FedDev Ontario, Communitech |
Oneliner |
Operational mission for AIS messages to detect ships. |
Description |
Next generation Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver for high ship-detection rates, and a high speed downlink transmitter for high data volume transfers. The satellite is designed to operate in a low inclination orbit to service some of the more remote and not-as-well covered areas of Earth. |
Sources | [1] [2] [3] |
Photo sources | [1] |
Keywords | AIS |
On the same launch |
Last modified: 2024-05-29