| Name | SwissCube |
|---|---|
| Type | CubeSat |
| Units or mass | 1U |
| Status | Operational, but some problems since 2017 (Last SatNOGS report with data 2023-05-11 checked on 2023-06-06, press release 2019-09-25 and AMSAT-HB article from 2023-04-12) |
| Launched | 2009-09-23 |
| NORAD ID | 35932 |
| Deployer | PSL / PSL-P (Picosatellite Launcher) [Astrofein] |
| Launcher | PSLV |
| Organisation | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EFPL) |
| Institution | University |
| Entity | Academic / Education |
| Nation | Switzerland |
| Launch brokerer | ISILaunch |
| Partners | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Oneliner |
Educational space systems engineering and camera to image nightglow phenomena. |
| Description |
The main objective is educational and to show the students how to build a complex engineering system from A to Z like a satellite. Carries a small telescope which will allow to obtain images of the nightglow, a luminescence phenomena occurring at 100 km of height above the Earth surface. Since the nightglow takes place in a very limited region in the high layer of the atmosphere and at well-know locations, it might be possible from the measurements to retrieve the direction towards the centre of the Earth and therefore enabling the design of a new generation of Earth sensor. |
| Sources | [1] [2] |
| Photo sources | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] |
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Last modified: 2023-06-08
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