PropCube

PropCube
PropCube
Name PropCube
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Organisation Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
Institution University
Entity Academic / Education
Nation US
Manufacturer AIVT by Terran Orbital
Launch brokerer Nanoracks
Partners Tyvak
Oneliner

Performing dual frequency ionospheric calibration measurements of ionospheric electron density and irregularities.

Description

The CubeSats are performing dual frequency ionospheric calibration measurements of ionospheric electron density and irregularities. They performing measurements of total electron content by differential group delay, of plasma irregularities by amplitude and phase scintillations and detection of artificial ionization and irregularities generated by the HAARP, Arecibo and Sura high frequency facilities.

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Photo sources [1] [2]
COTS subsystems
  • PLATFORM - Tyvak

Related Spacecraft

Name Status Launch Orbit
PropCube 1 (Flora, Propagation CubeSat) Was operational? (Tyvak, CubeSat Developers Workshop 2018 but no recent news found apart from article from October 2022 talking about them in past sense) 2015-10-08 500 x 800 km, 64.8 deg
PropCube 3 (Merryweather. Propagation CubeSat) Was operational? (Tyvak, CubeSat Developers Workshop 2018 but no recent news found apart from article from October 2022 talking about them in past sense) 2015-10-08 500 x 800 km, 64.8 deg
PropCube 2 (Fauna, Propagation CubeSat) Reentry 2022-07-30. Was operational? (Public news on 2018-11-01) 2017-11-12 460 km, 51.6 deg, Cygnus

Last modified: 2023-06-03
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