Name | AMICal Sat (AMICALSAT) |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 2U |
Status | Operational (Official post on social media and SatNOGS dashboard as of 2020-09-24) |
Launched | 2020-09-02 |
NORAD ID | 49275 |
Deployer | ISIPOD [ISISpace] |
Launcher | Vega (Small Satellite Mission Service) |
Organisation | CSUG-IPAG (Univ. Grenoble Alpes) |
Institution | University |
Entity | Academic / Education |
Nation | France |
Manufacturer | AIVT by SatRevolution |
Operator | SatRevolution |
Oneliner |
Observation of the northern and southern lights. Auroral Sparse RGB imaging. Limb and Nadir sighting. |
Description |
Take pictures of the Northern light in order to reconstruct the particle precipitation into the polar atmosphere. The payload is a very compact, ultra-sensitive wide filed imager (f=23mm, aperture f/1.4). The images will be public, allowing a large community to get auroral images from space. Space weather is a domain which has multiple application especially for radio communication. Northern light are one effect of the particles coming from the sun into the atmosphere through the magnetosphere. They are thus a good “tracer” of ionospheric phenomenon. |
Sources | [1] |
Photo Sources | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Last modified: 2022-12-29
Detailed AMICal Sat entry in the Database
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