InnoCube Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	InnoCube (TUBSAT-31)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Mass in kg	4.3 kg
Status	Operational (Post by project manager on LinkedIn after launch and many SatNOGS reports with data)
Launched	2025-01-14
NORAD ID	62616
Deployer	EXOpod Nova 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher	Falcon 9 (Transporter-12)
Organisation	University of Würzburg
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Headquarters	Germany
Operator	Technische Universit¨at Berlin
Partners	Technical University of Braunschweig
Oneliner	Demonstrate structure that can store energy and ultra-broadband radio that does not require internal cabling. Using a fully wireless data bus for all subsystems
Description	The satellite will demonstrate SKITH, a wireless data transmission system designed to replace traditional cables, and Wall#E, a rechargeable battery that doubles as the satellite’s structure, reducing both weight and cost. Besides education, the goal of the InnoCube mission is technology demonstration. The data concerning is the telemetry data itself, a functioning satellite suggests the demonstration to be successful. Operations will therefore serve the technology demonstration, however the main focus of operations, once a functioning satellite is established, is education. Technology demonstration of a wireless satellite bus (ISM radio application inside the satellite opposed to wired harness between subsystems, power of 9 dBm) Technology demonstration of fibre reinforced spacecraft walls for energy storage with solidstate batteries GNSS determination experiment in parallel operations with a laser ranging reflector Student education of TU Berlin and JMU Würzburg and TU Braunschweig (lectures of satellite operations, satellite technology) Technology research will be published publicly Two innovative technologies, Skith and Wall#E. Wall#E (Fiber Reinforced Spacecraft Walls for Energy Storage) is a special fibre-reinforced structure that can store electrical energy and at the same time can be used as the supporting structure of the satellite. Wall#E was developed in Braunschweig at the Institute of Space Systems. The wireless satellite infrastructure Skith (Skip the harness) originates from Würzburg. It eliminates the internal cabling of the satellite components by enabling data transmission with ultra-broadband radio. The Wall#E and Skith technologies have emerged as winners of the DLR INNOspace Masters competitions in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Their development was supported in separate projects by DLR Space Agency with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The INNOcube project started April 1, 2020.
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