Lambdasat Satellite

Lambdasat
Lambdasat
Lambdasat
Lambdasat
Lambdasat
Spacecraft name Lambdasat (Λ-sat, Lambda-Sat, NanoRacks-Λ-Sat Hellenic Satellite)
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Status Reentry 2015-05-16. No signal. (Unable to find any successful hearing reports after launch)
Launched 2014-07-13
NORAD ID 40458
Deployer NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher Antares
Deployment Deployed from ISS on 2015-03-04
Entity name San Jose State University
Institution University
Entity type Academic / Education
Headquarters US
Launch brokerer Nanoracks
Oneliner

Radiation experiment, AIS reicever and communication through Iridium.

Description

Technology for two-way communication with the ground systems for operations. It carries a new science experiment which measures the radiation effects on the graphene material in real environment in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Another technology that carries is an AIS receiver for tracking all the vessels inside its footprint around the globe. The communication consist of an Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) modem and makes use of the Iridium constellation.

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Keywords AIS, Globalstar or Iridium or Inmarsat
On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-05-29

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