ALainSat-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	ALainSat-1 (AlAinSat-1, 3Cat-6)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	Operational? (News about receiving first signal on 2025-01-17 but object not identified on Space-Track as of 2025-04-20)
Launched	2025-01-14
NORAD ID	?
Deployer	EXOpod Nova 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (Transporter-12)
Organization	The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC)
Institution	Space agency
Entity type	Government (Civil / Military)
Country	United Arab Emirates
Partners	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Telkom University, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Oneliner	Allow student teams to develop Earth Observation payloads for a small satellite.
Description	AlainSat-1 is a collaboration project between NSSTC and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in the form of the and GRSS Student Grand Challenge in order to allow student teams to develop Earth Observation payloads for a small satellite. The three winning teams building the satellite payload are: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain: An L-band radiometer for monitoring soil moisture, a multispectral camera for monitoring vegetation, and a software defined radio for monitoring Radio Frequency Interference along with an antenna system. Telkom University, Indonesia: A camera and a miniature spectrometer for atmospheric sensing. Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan: Algorithms for onboard image classification to automatically detect the best quality images for downlinking.
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On the same launch	AE1C AE1D ALainSat-1 ANSER Leader-S Balkan-1 BRO-16 BUZZER-1 Centauri-7 Centauri-8 Connecta IoT 5 Connecta IoT 6 Connecta IoT 7 Connecta IoT 8 Flock-4g 1 Flock-4g 2 Flock-4g 3 Flock-4g 4 Flock-4g 5 Flock-4g 6 Flock-4g 7 Flock-4g 8 Flock-4g 9 Flock-4g 10 Flock-4g 11 Flock-4g 12 Flock-4g 13 Flock-4g 14 Flock-4g 15 Flock-4g 16 Flock-4g 17 Flock-4g 18 Flock-4g 19 Flock-4g 20 Flock-4g 21 Flock-4g 22 Flock-4g 23 Flock-4g 24 Flock-4g 25 Flock-4g 26 Flock-4g 27 Flock-4g 28 Flock-4g 29 Flock-4g 30 Flock-4g 31 Flock-4g 32 Flock-4g 33 Flock-4g 34 Flock-4g 35 Flock-4g 36 Edison Elevation-1 FOREST-3 FOSSASat TAT-A FOSSASat TAT-E FUSION-1 GEN1 HCT-SAT 1 InnoCube IRIS-F2 IRIS-F3 Lemur-2 197 Lemur-2 198 Lemur-2 199 Lemur-2 200 Lemur-2 201 Lemur-2 202 LIME Otter Parus-T1 PAUSAT1 SAT GUS SATurnin-1 SCOT TechEdSat-22 TROLL VEERY-0F LOGSATS 2 LusoSpace 0 Sedna 2 HADES-R Hello Space 2 Hello Space 3 HYDRA-2 HYPE POQUITO PROMETHEUS-1 BlueBon FOSSASat TAT-O

Last modified: 2025-04-22