Atlas V OUTSat Launch 2012

LAUNCH VEHICLE:

Atlas V

 

LAUNCH SITE:

Vandenberg Air Force Base

LAUNCH TIME:

September 13, 2012 - 21:39 UTC

 

PRIMARY PAYLOAD:

NROL-36

 

NUMBER OF CUBESATS:

11

 

P-POD Satellite Name Organization Size Beacon Details More Info
1 SMDC-ONE 2.2 (Baker) U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command 3U More Info
2 AeroCube 4.0 (x3) Aerospace Corp. 1U (x3) More Info
3 Aeneas University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Space Engineering Research Center 3U 437.600 MHz, AX.25 1200 baud, 10 sec period, continuous unless TT & C actively connected over Southern California More Info
4 CSSWE University of Colorado, Boulder & Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics 3U 437.345 MHz, 0.5W GMSK AX.25 9600 bps, 18 sec period More Info
5 CP5 California Polytechnic State University, SLO 1U 437.405 MHz, 0.5W AFSK NRZI AX.25 1200 baud, 2 min period More Info
5 Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite (CXBN) Morehead State University and Partners (Kentucky Space, Noqsi Aerospace, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Little H-Bar Ranch 2U 437.525 MHz, CW (Adjustable), baseline 30 sec period, mode is constant when power margin is available, contains telemetry and some science data More Info
6 CINEMA University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory 3U More Info
7 Re (STARE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 3U More Info
8 SMDC-ONE 2.1 (Able) U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command 3U More Info
5B PrintSat Colorado Satellite Services, LLC, Montana State University 1U 437.325 9600bps GMSK Beacon rate initially: 1 minute Reception reports are appreciated. Email them to jim@coloradosatellite.com More Info
6 STACEM 3U
7 SUPERNOVA 6U

The CubeSats are integrated into 8 P-POD deployers which are contained in the NPSCuL built by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The NPSCuL together with the 8 P-PODs and 11 CubeSats is referred to as the Operationally Unique Technology Satellite (OUTSat), and is attached to the Centaur upper stage's Aft Bulkhead Carrier (ABC). The assembled OUTSat is shown in the photo below ready for mate to the launch vehicle along with members of the OUTSat team consisting of NPS, Office of Space Launch (OSL), United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Cal Poly, SLO.

 

Vega Maiden Launch 2012

LAUNCH VEHICLE:

Vega

 

LAUNCH SITE:

Guiana Space Center, South America

 

LAUNCH TIME:

February 13, 2012 - 10:00:00 UTC

 

PRIMARY PAYLOADS:

LARES

 

NUMBER OF CUBESATS:

7

  • Xatcobeo (a collaboration of the University of Vigo and INTA, Spain): a mission to demonstrate software-defined radio and solar panel deployment;
  • Robusta (University of Montpellier 2, France): a mission to test and evaluate radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic components;
  • e-st@r (Politecnico di Torino, Italy): demonstration of an active 3-axis attitude determination and control system including an inertial measurement unit;
  • Goliat (University of Bucharest, Romania): imaging of Earth using a digital camera and in-situ measurement of radiation dose and micrometeoroid flux;
  • PW-Sat (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland): a mission to test a deployable atmospheric drag augmentation device for de-orbiting CubeSats;
  • MaSat-1 (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): a mission to demonstrate various spacecraft avionics, including a power conditioning system, transceiver and onboard data handling;
  • UniCubeSat GG (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy):a mission to study the gravity gradient.

Read more at http://spaceflightnow.com/vega/vv01/120213launch/

Links to all of the individual CubeSat home pages can be found at http://www.uk.amsat.org/4180

We would also like to congratulate those behind the first satellites ever for Romania, Hungary, and Poland! http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWHLWX7YG_index_0.html