BRITE-Austria
Sign in to saveAlso known as BRITE-A, Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 3B, CanX-3B, Can X-3B, Bright-star Target Explorer - Austria, Bright Target Explorer - Austria, TUGSat-1, BAb
TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- BRITE-Constellation
- Operator
- Graz University of Technology
- Country of origin
- Austria
- Mass
- 6.9
- Orbital period
- 100.37
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2013-02-25
- space launch vehicle
- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- periapsis
- 776
- apoapsis
- 790
- orbital inclination
- 98.62
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TUGSAT-1, also known as BRITE-Austria and CanX-3B, is the first Austrian satellite. It is an optical astronomy spacecraft operated by the Graz University of Technology as part of the international BRIght-star Target Explorer programme.
==Details== TUGSAT-1 was manufactured by the University of Toronto based on the Generic Nanosatellite Bus, and had a mass at launch of (plus another 7 kg for the XPOD separation system). The spacecraft is cube-shaped, with each side measuring . The satellite will be used, along with five other spacecraft, to conduct photometric observations of stars with apparent magnitude of greater than 4.0 as seen from Earth. TUGSAT-1 was one of the first two BRITE satellites to be launched, along with the Austro-Canadian UniBRITE-1 spacecraft. Four more satellites, two Canadian and two Polish, were launched at later dates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BRITE-Austria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.