Lambdasat Satellite - Nanosats Database

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	Flock-1b Dove-1 Flock-1b Dove-2 Flock-1b Dove-3 Flock-1b Dove-4 Flock-1b Dove-5 Flock-1b Dove-6 Flock-1b Dove-7 Flock-1b Dove-8 Flock-1b Dove-9 Flock-1b Dove-10 Flock-1b Dove-11 Flock-1b Dove-12 Flock-1b Dove-13 Flock-1b Dove-14 Flock-1b Dove-15 Flock-1b Dove-16 Flock-1b Dove-17 Flock-1b Dove-18 Flock-1b Dove-19 Flock-1b Dove-20 Flock-1b Dove-21 Flock-1b Dove-22 Flock-1b Dove-23 Flock-1b Dove-24 Flock-1b Dove-25 Flock-1b Dove-26 Flock-1b Dove-27 Flock-1b Dove-28 GEARRS-1 Lambdasat MicroMAS-1 TechEdSat-4

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