ZimSat-2 Spacecraft

ZimSat-2
ZimSat-2
Satellite ZimSat-2 (Z2AS, Amaisat)
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Status Operational? (TinyGS last packets from 2024-12-18, last checked 2024-12-18)
Launched 2024-11-04
NORAD ID 61783
Deployer 12U Deployer [Aerospace Capital]
Launcher Sojuz
Entity name National Geospatial and Space Agency
Institution Space agency
Entity Government (Civil / Military)
Nation (HQ) Zimbabwe
Nation (AIT) Russia
Manufacturer AIVT by Tsiolkovsky Research Institute of Space Instrumentation and Radioelectronic Systems
Oneliner

Created as part of an international project commissioned by the National Geospatial and Space Agency of Zimbabwe.

Description

The main payload is a multispectral camera with a spatial resolution of 8 meters. 

ZIMSAT-2 (AMAISAT) is the second satellite for Zimbabwe which was designed and manufactured through collaborative research programme between ZINGSA and South West State University (SWSU). ZINGSA engineers and students on Presidential scholarships participated collaboratively to develop the satellite from the mission design to the flight model. The satellite is scheduled to be launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Amur Oblast, Russia.

The "Amaisat" satellite was created as part of an international project commissioned by the National Geospatial and Space Agency of Zimbabwe. In addition, our specialists, with the participation of Zimbabwean students and postgraduates from YUZGU and the Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, developed a ground station. It will receive signals from satellites in orbit, including the small spacecraft Amaisat. The Zimbabwean delegation will observe its launch directly from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

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On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-12-28

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