IRIS-C2 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	IRIS-C2
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Entity name	National Cheng Kung University
Institution	University
Entity type	Academic / Education
Nation	Taiwan
Oneliner	Educational mission with star tracker and S-band radio.
Description	Educational purpose experiment. To improve both CubeSat platform and ground station in the university. It is the first time to setup S-Band system in NCKU. Students can learn about each sub-system of CubeSat and the dish-like antenna operation on ground station. Homemade Star tracker from university. It could provide more accurate attitude information to ADCS. IRIS-C provides FM digipeater, allowing the operator to upload data packet (145.860MHz) with desired retransmit delay time. The FM digipeater receives a packet of data, stores it in internal memory and then a moment later retransmits it on UHF (436.915MHz) or S- Band (2420MHz).
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Satellite	Status	Rocket	Launch	Orbit
IRIS-C	Reentry 2024-10-18. Was operational (Many SatNOGS reports with data last checked on 2023-12-21)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-7), (Momentus Vigoride), (Vigoride-6, VR-6)	2023-04-15	500 km, 97.4 deg
IRIS-C2 (Taurus-1)	Reentry 2025-08-17. Was operational (Many SatNOGS reports with data with latest on 2023-12-01 and packets visible on waterfall. Last checked 2023-12-16)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-9)	2023-11-11	520 km, 97.5 deg

Last modified: 2025-12-31