LituanicaSAT-1 (LO-78)

Educational training and demonstrate CubeSat platform technologies.

Launch into Earth orbit satellite, the first Lithuanian satellite. Perform the first Lithuanian space exploration. Lithuanian designed to test space technology. Space to test alternative energy sources. Create new business opportunities. Organizing Lithuanians scientists from around the world. Capture the first Lithuanian pictures from space.

Locally manufactured primary and secondary flight computers which control the payload consisting of an onboard VGA photo camera and FM Mode V/U Voice Repeater, designed and built by Lithuanian radio-amateurs. Satellite’s external solar panels were specially built and donated by Lithuanian based R&D company „Precizika-MET SC“.

One of the mission secondary goals is also to test under space environment different micro-controller designs and MEMS sensors that are integrated into on-board computers.

• First 10 Lithuanian pictures from space were captured and retrieved from LituanicaSAT-1;
• Greetings from the President were broadcast over 1000 times;
• LituanicaSAT-1 received great attention from the community of radio amateurs and was awarded the international designation OSCAR-78 or LO-78 by Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT);
• LituanicaSAT-1 was covered by NANORACKS customer case study as a success story;
• FM repeater worked for more than 650 hours during the mission;
• Satellite orbited Earth 2 358 times and traveled over 100 million kilometers;
• Over 10 000 telemetry packets were received during the mission;
• Signal from the satellite was received by correspondents from more than 20 countries;
• The LituanicaSAT-1 mission was dedicated to the 80 years anniversary of the flight across the Atlantic by Lithuanian-American pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas. This was why the satellite bore the name of the original aircraft used during this historic flight – “Lituanica”.