Nanosat-1B
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The Nanosat-1B Spanish satellite, designed, developed and operated by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) (National Institute of Aerospace Technology), is a nanosatellite which weighs 22 kg. Its main mission is the communication between remote sites like the Antarctic, the Hespérides warship and Spain. The Nanosat-1B has fourteen sides, all of them covered by solar cells but the bottom one where the following antennas are installed: a medium gain Ultra high frequency (UHF) four wire antenna and two patch antennas. On the top side there are four UHF monopoles. The solar s
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- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Country
- Spain
- Follows
- Nanosat 01
- Image
- Nanosat1b.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Dnepr
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2009-07-29
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109
- type of orbit
- polar orbit
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- Nanosat-1B
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Nanosat-1B payload
- Future approach
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- References
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The Nanosat-1B Spanish satellite, designed, developed and operated by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) (National Institute of Aerospace Technology), is a nanosatellite which weighs 22 kg. Its main mission is the communication between remote sites like the Antarctic, the Hespérides warship and Spain. The Nanosat-1B has fourteen sides, all of them covered by solar cells but the bottom one where the following antennas are installed: a medium gain Ultra high frequency (UHF) four wire antenna and two patch antennas. On the top side there are four UHF monopoles. The solar sensors and the Vectorsol experiment are located in the middle tray, being all the other equipment and experiments located inside the satellite.
The Nanosat-1B covers all the Earth due to his polar orbit and it stores scientific data which are unloaded when the satellite passes the Control Centre vertical (located at INTA, Torrejón, Madrid) and the mobile stations (Nano-Terminals).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nanosat-1B” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.