Manitoba SAT-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	Iris (Manitoba SAT-1, ManitobaSat-1, MBCubeSat-1)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	Reentry 2024-01-31? No signal? (No news found after launch. no reports found on SatNOGS, LinkedIn or Twitter. Object not identified in Space-Track as of 2023-10-31)
Launched	2023-06-05
NORAD ID	57313 ?
Deployer	NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (CRS-28)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2023-07-06
Organization	University of Manitoba
Institution	University
Entity type	Academic / Education
Country	Canada
Partners	University of Winnipeg, York University, Interlake School Division, Magellan Aerospace
Oneliner	Study how space conditions affect the composition of asteroids and the Moon.
Description	Study how space conditions affect the composition of asteroids and the Moon so that researchers on Earth can better understand those effects when studying their cousins, meteorites. This mission will also help better understand the origins of asteroids when we combine this data with the data from asteroid sample-return missions, such as the OSIRIS-REx mission. Educational mission by CSA to allow professors and university students to conduct space missions from conception to launch to decommissioning. Geology mission to send meteorite, lunar and other geological samples back to space to supplement research of NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission. Educational outreach mission by involving elementary school students to design their own gnomon payload experiment that will act as a pointing indicator for our geology payload- Technology demonstration for novel sun sensors from York University. Proposing a UHF downlink using 9k6 FSK over Canada.
Results
Notes	One of 15 winners of Canadian CubeSat Project.
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On the same launch	ESSENCE Manitoba SAT-1 Maya-5 Maya-6 Moonlighter RADSAT-SK SC-ODIN Ukpik-1

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