| Name | KrakSat (KRAKsat) |
|---|---|
| Type | CubeSat |
| Units or mass | 1U |
| Status | Was operational until 2019-07-30, 14 days after battery dropped to critical level. Was quiet from deployment on 2019-07-03 to 2019-07-16 after which two-way communications was established, but mission objectives not completed. |
| Launched | 2019-04-17 |
| NORAD ID | 44426 |
| Deployer | NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M] |
| Launcher | Antares |
| Deployment | Deployed from ISS on 2019-07-03 |
| Organisation | AGH University of Science and Technology |
| Institution | University |
| Entity | Academic / Education |
| Nation | Poland |
| Manufacturer | AIVT by SatRevolution |
| Launch brokerer | Nanoracks |
| Oneliner | Demostrate ferrofluid based attitude control. |
| Results | Main experiment of Ferrofluid Reaction Wheel not started due to negative power budgets and various cascading problems. |
| Failure cause | Power supply (negative power budget) problems causing endless loop of restarts. Also hysteresis and EPS problems. |
| Sources | [1] [2] [3] |
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Last modified: 2021-12-23
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