Goliat @ Nanosats Database

Name	Goliat
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. Developing, integrating, testing, launching and operating a CubeSat type satellite and its components; Designing, developing and integrating a specific satellite payload; Designing and constructing the ground station infrastructure. 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.
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