Picacho Satellite - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	Picacho (Gossamer Vendelinus)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	1U
Status	Deployment failure? (Telemetry may have been received and will keep looking for the satellite as per article from 2023-12-01 and press release on 2023-12-12)
Launched	2023-11-11
NORAD ID	Deployment failure?
Deployer	?
Launcher	Falcon 9 (Transporter-9)
Organization	Lunasonde
Institution	Company
Entity type	Commercial
Country	UK
Launch brokerer	Momentus
Oneliner	Measure the power spectral density of low-frequency radio signals in the ionosphere.
Description	Technology demonstration of Lunasonde’s sensors. It will measure the power spectral density of low-frequency radio signals in the ionosphere. Has a 4m tape spring deployable antenna. It's a test run for our next satellite, which will have a 10m deployable antenna.
Results	After the deployment window closed, Lunasonde received telemetry with modulation characteristics that matched Picacho. Two days after presumed deployment, several external sources identified 39 signals as telemetry coming from the satellite. We will post details of any findings we uncover.
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On the same launch	Barry BRO-10 BRO-11 Connecta T3.1 Connecta T3.2 Djibouti-1A Flock-4q 1 Flock-4q 2 Flock-4q 3 Flock-4q 4 Flock-4q 5 Flock-4q 6 Flock-4q 7 Flock-4q 8 Flock-4q 9 Flock-4q 10 Flock-4q 11 Flock-4q 12 Flock-4q 13 Flock-4q 14 Flock-4q 15 Flock-4q 16 Flock-4q 17 Flock-4q 18 Flock-4q 19 Flock-4q 20 Flock-4q 21 Flock-4q 22 Flock-4q 23 Flock-4q 24 Flock-4q 25 Flock-4q 26 Flock-4q 27 Flock-4q 28 Flock-4q 29 Flock-4q 30 Flock-4q 31 Flock-4q 32 Flock-4q 33 Flock-4q 34 Flock-4q 35 Flock-4q 36 GENMAT-1 Hello Test 1 Hello Test 2 HERON Mk II IRIS-C2 JINJUSat-1 KAFASAT Lemur-2 Ella1 Lemur-2 GHGSat A Lemur-2 GHGSat B Lemur-2 GHGSat C Lemur-2 Mango Two Lemur-2 Mango Two Lemur-2 (SNC 1) Lemur-2 (SNC 2) Lemur-2 (SNC 3) Lemur-2 (SNC 4) MANTIS NinjaSat Observer-1 A OMNI-LER1 ORB-6 Digantara Outpost Mission 2 PEARL 1C PEARL 1H Picacho PLATERO Platform-5 ProtoMéthée-1 STORK-7 Tiger-5 Tiger-6 Veronika Xplore (OrbAstro) Alderbaran-1 CRYPTO3 EPICHyper-3 Intuition-1 Lemur-2 NANAZ OSW Cazorla PiCo-IoT 1 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 2 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 3 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 4 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 5 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 6 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 7 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 8 (Apogeo, FEES) PiCo-IoT 9 (Apogeo, FEES) SATELIOT_1 SATELIOT_2 SATELIOT_3 SATELIOT_4 Ymir-1 Hades-D (Hydra-1) ROM-3 Spaceant-D Tartan Artibeus-2 Unicorn-2J Unicorn-2K Exo-0 Time We’ll Tell

Last modified: 2023-12-21