| Name |
PION-BR1 |
| Type |
PocketQube |
| Units or mass |
PocketQube 1p |
| Status |
No signal? (Object not identified in Space-Track as of 2022-12-19 and no successful reports in Libre Space forums) |
| Launched |
2022-01-13 |
| NORAD ID |
? |
| Deployer |
Albapod [Alba Orbital] |
| Launcher |
Falcon 9 (Transporter-3) (Alba Cluster 4) |
| Organisation |
PION Labs |
| Institution |
Company |
| Entity |
Commercial |
| Nation |
Brazil |
| Launch brokerer |
Alba Orbital, Exolaunch |
| Oneliner |
Demonstrate PocketQube platform and attitude determination system.
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| Description |
The PION-BR1 PocketQube is a satellite that will test communications systems and it will provide an opportunity for the students from Brazil to collect and transmit data. Also, test a pocketqube platform and an attitude determination system.
The satellite will be a technological demonstrator for the solution under development by PION, designed to provide accessible, secure and reliable IoT (Internet of Things) communications through a constellation of small satellites. Also, the PION-BR1 will provide data and a beacon for radiomateurs as a secondary mission.
Based in São Paulo, Brazil, PION Labs develops educational PocketQube kits as a way of inspiring students and teachers in Brazil to engage with space technologies and to promote wider STEM education outreach across the nation. PION-BR1 will be their first PocketQube to reach orbit and achieve valuable ‘space heritage’, demonstrating to students that they can also reach for the stars.
- The primary mission will be a digital store-and-forward messaging experiment using the NGHam protocol.
- The secondary mission is to compare and evaluate the performance of the store-and-forward experiment using GFSK and LoRa modulations.
In order to support classroom and STEM activities, the project will also:
- Evaluate the attitude of a pocketqube in a space environment;
- Evaluate the temperature environment the satellite is inserted in;
- Perform data collection of a magnetorquer experiment. The project source code will be published on GitHub.
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| Sources |
[1] [2] [3] |
| Photo Sources |
[1] [2] [3] [4] |
Last modified: 2022-12-29
Detailed PION-BR1 entry in the Database
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