UGATUSAT

Infobox Spacecraft
Organisation = Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Mission_Type = Earth observation/Technology development
Orbit_regime = Low Earth orbit
Mass = 30 kilograms
Carrier_Rocket = Soyuz-2
Launch = TBD
Launch_Site = Plesetsk Cosmodrome
IMG_Resolution = 50 metres/pixel|

UGATUSAT is a Russian nanosatellite which was built, and will be operated by Ufa State Aviation Technical University (UGATU). The satellite will be used as a technology demonstrator, and for Earth observation. The development programme was budgeted at around 155M Roubles (£3.75M/$7.25M). [http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/ugatusat.htm Gunter's Space Page - UGATUSAT] ] Launch, atop a Kosmos-3M carrier rocket from LC-107 at Kapustin Yar is currently scheduled for 19 June. It will be launched as a secondary payload, with the primary payload consisting of six Orbcomm satellites. It has been reported that it may be transferred to a later launch, as a secondary payload on a Soyuz-2 rocket, to the first Persona satellite.

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