Name | UNITE (Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer) |
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Type | CubeSat |
Units or mass | 3U |
Status | Reentry 2021-10-19. Was operational? (Undated description on website checked on 2019-05-26 and Smallsat 2019) |
Launched | 2018-12-05 |
NORAD ID | 44031 |
Deployer | NRCSD (NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer) [Quad-M] |
Launcher | Falcon 9 (CRS-16) |
Deployment | Deployed from ISS on 2019-01-31 |
Organisation | Purdue University |
Institution | University |
Entity | Academic / Education |
Nation | US |
Manufacturer | AIVT by NearSpace Launch |
Launch brokerer | Nanoracks |
Oneliner | Make a series of global measurements in the lower ionosphere to asses drag and compare against thermal models. |
Sources | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] |
Keywords | Globalstar or Iridium or Inmarsat |
Last modified: 2021-12-28
Detailed UNITE entry in the Database
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