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CUTE-1.7 + APD Operator Tokyo Institute of Technology Mission type Technology development Satellite of Earth Launch date February 21, 2006 Launch vehicle M-5 rocket Launch site Uchinoura Space Center Mission duration 0.2 years Homepage [1] Mass 3 kg Orbital elements Inclination 98.19 degrees Apoapsis 712 km Periapsis 299 km Orbital period 94.72 minutes Instruments Main instruments APD (An avalanche photodiode for monitoring charged particles flux in low-Earth orbit [2]) CUTE-1.7 + APD (Cubical Tokyo Tech Engineering satellite 1.7) or CO-56 (Cubesat-Oscar-56) is an amateur radio nanosatellite in the form of a double CubeSat. The satellite uses commercial off-the-shelf components extensively, in particular, using the Hitachi NPD-20JWL PDA as a control computer, and using a USB hub for sensor communications. At the end of its mission, the satellite will deploy an electrodynamic tether to help it deorbit.
On March 16, 2006, the communication system malfunctioned so that it is transmitting unmodulated carrier wave and unable to communicate.[1]
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Cute-1.7 + APD II
Cute-1.7 + APD II Operator Tokyo Institute of Technology Mission type Technology development Satellite of Earth Launch date April 28, 2008 Launch vehicle Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Homepage [3] The follow-on project, CUTE-1.7 + APD II, has a similar architecture. It launched on 28 April 2008 along with nine other satellites aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
See also
References
External links
- Official homepage
- Summary article
- Telemetry (in Czech)
Categories:- Amateur radio satellites
- Artificial satellites orbiting Earth
- Communications satellites
- Japanese satellites and space probes
- Student satellites
- 2006 in spaceflight
- CubeSats
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Communications satellite stubs
- Amateur radio stubs
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