Name | Goliat |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 1U |
Status | Reentry 2014-12-31. Was semi-operational until? Intermittent beacons, but no two-way communications. |
Launched | 2012-02-13 |
NORAD ID | 38080 |
Deployer | P-POD (Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer) |
Launcher | Vega |
Organisation | University of Bucharest |
Institution | University |
Entity | Academic / Education |
Nation | Romania |
Launch brokerer | ESA Education Office, Cal Poly |
Partners | University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romanian Space Agency, Romanian Institute for Space Sciences |
Oneliner |
Educational space systems engineering and camera. |
Description |
Obtain a multidisciplinary team of students which, by the end of the project, shall be able to design, integrate and operate a full nanosatellite mission.
From a scientific point of view, the Romanian CubeSat will integrate three experiments in LEO: Dose-N – determining the total dose of radiation in orbit; SAMIS – micrometeorites detection in orbit; CICLOP – 3MP digital camera equipped with a custom lens mount. |
Sources | [1] [2] |
Photo sources | [1] [2] [3] |
Last modified: 2023-06-09
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