Ant-1 Spacecraft

Satellite name Ant-1
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 3U
Status not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher Falcon 9, (Transporter-14), (UARX OSSIE)
Entity name CShark
Institution Company
Entity Commercial
Headquarters Italy
Oneliner

Based on CSHARK's proprietary bus to test Ku-band communications.

Description

A 3U Cubesat, based on CSHARK's proprietary bus, derived from the company's PocketQube systems, will launch on a SpaceX Transporter mission in July 2025.
This is a 2-year In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) mission to assess communication in the Ku-Band.
To demonstrate the feasibility of a Ku-band link between a small user terminal and a ground station (Gateway), paving the way for the development of a high throughput satellite constellation based on CubeSats.

Sources [1]
Keywords Ku-band

Last modified: 2025-04-26

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