MaSat-1
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MaSat-1 (from the words Magyar and Satellite, the first meaning "Hungarian" in Hungarian, maszat, pronounced IPA [ˈmɒsɒt], meaning "smudge") is the first indigenous Hungarian satellite, developed and built by students at the Technical University of Budapest. The 1U CubeSat-type satellite was launched into low Earth orbit on 13 February 2012. The satellite provided telemetric data as well as VGA resolution color images at the 70 cm amateur radio wavelength (437.345 MHz frequency) received at the tracking center at Budapest. The center was tested on 31 March 2009 with the help of Charl
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- MaSat-1
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Technology
- Spaceflight.operator
- Technical University of Budapest
- Spaceflight.website
- http://cubesat.bme.hu/?lang=en
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2012-006E
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 38081
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 3 months
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- 1U CubeSat
- Spaceflight.power
- watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Vega VV01
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kourou ELA-1
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Arianespace
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- 9 November 2013, 01:42:56 UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 69.47 degrees
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 98.35 minutes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Significant event
- rocket launch
Show 3 more facts
- start point
- Ensemble de Lancement Vega
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2012-02-13
- space launch vehicle
- Vega
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Operations
- Technical specifications
- See also
- References
MaSat-1 (from the words Magyar and Satellite, the first meaning "Hungarian" in Hungarian, maszat, pronounced IPA [ˈmɒsɒt], meaning "smudge") is the first indigenous Hungarian satellite, developed and built by students at the Technical University of Budapest. The 1U CubeSat-type satellite was launched into low Earth orbit on 13 February 2012. The satellite provided telemetric data as well as VGA resolution color images at the 70 cm amateur radio wavelength (437.345 MHz frequency) received at the tracking center at Budapest. The center was tested on 31 March 2009 with the help of Charles Simonyi on board the International Space Station. With the successful launch of MaSat-1, Hungary became the 47th nation to orbit a satellite. Between 9 and 10 January 2015, the satellite reentered into the atmosphere.
== Operations == Weeks following its launch, after the first high-quality images were available was it revealed to the public that a camera was on board.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MaSat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.