Binar 1 @ Nanosats Database

Name	Binar 1 (Binar-1)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Reentry 2022-09-30. Was semi-operational until 2021-11-02 (First heard about 2 weeks after launch when secondary beacon was commanded on, but final recorded transmission on that date according to SmallSat 2022 paper)
Launched	2021-08-29
NORAD ID	49272
Deployer	J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher	Falcon 9 (CRS-23)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2021-10-12
Organisation	Curtin University
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Nation	Australia
Launch brokerer	Space BD
Oneliner	Test CubeSat technologies for deep space missions.
Description	Develop an Australian capability in solar system exploration, with spacecraft built around a CubeSat platform for deep space missions. Its mission goals are as follows: Test and verify onboard store and forward functionality for amateur packet radio – will be used to engage local schools. Test custom, in-house developed cubesat platform hardware (flight computer, EPS, ADCS & GPS). Test and verify CubeSat platform and payload hardware – star tracker.
Results	5 days passed and we resided ourselves to the fact that maybe we couldn’t reach Binar. Then… 2 weeks later we heard back from the satellite after successfully enabling a secondary beacon!! So now what? Where do we go from here? We take what we learn and improve it for the next mission. For example, we assumed the radio module we tested on the ground worked the same as the one we sent to space—but that wasn’t the case, leading to some frantic last-minute changes that eventually meant we didn’t get the images or data we hoped for from orbit.
Failure cause	No signal until COTS communication system was put into its own beacon mode, which depleted the battery after 11.5 days. Most likely adapter board failure.
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COTS subsystems	TRANSCEIVER - EnduroSat ANTENNA - EnduroSat
Subsystems sources	[1]

Last modified: 2023-06-09
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