PearlAfricaSat-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	PearlAfricaSat-1 (BIRDS-5)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Reentry 2023-05-16. No signal? (Unable to find confirmed successful signal reception reports as of 2022-12-20)
Launched	2022-11-07
NORAD ID	54535
Deployer	J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer)
Launcher	Antares (NG-18)
Deployment	Deployed from ISS on 2022-12-02
Organization	Kyushu Institute of Technology
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Nation (HQ)	Uganda
Nation (AIT)	Japan
Manufacturer	AIVT by Kyushu Institute of Technology
Launch brokerer	JAXA
Oneliner	Educational and amateur radio mission.
Description	Build Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite while improving the standardized bus system for future missions, giving continuity to the satellite development of Japan and previous missions from BIRDS-1,2,3 and 4. Primary Objective(s) To design, build, test, launch and operate Uganda and Zimbabwe’s first satellite. To demonstrate the multispectral camera and DLP feasibility on 1U CubeSat. To give continuity to three missions; attitude visualisation, Imaging classification Mission (IMG-CLS) and Store & Forward (SF- WARD). To demonstrate Particle Instrument for Nano-satellite(PINO). To serve the Amateur radio community with APRS-Digipeater mission (APRS-DP). Secondary Objective(s) To give continuity to 2U structure for further projects. To demonstrate on-board image processing and classification. To demonstrate mounting of three Raspberry Pi on a 1U CubeSat. Uganda will make use of the microgravity (the weightless environment) provided by the satellite to carry out advanced 3D biological human tissue printing. Additionally, the team in space will carry out investigations on how microgravity impacts ovary function.
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Keywords	Open-source, First CubeSat of country
On the same launch	PearlAfricaSat-1 TAKA ZimSat-1 SpaceTuna 1

Last modified: 2023-11-04