SwissCube-1
Sign in to saveSwissCube-1 is a Swiss satellite operated by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The spacecraft is a single unit CubeSat, which was designed to conduct research into nightglow within the Earth's atmosphere, and to develop technology for future spacecraft. It has also been used for amateur radio. It was the first Swiss satellite to be launched.
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Vinony's link graph records 103 inbound references to SwissCube-1, and connects out to orbital inclination, Satish Dhawan Space Centre and Switzerland.
Vinony files it under 2009 in Switzerland, CubeSats and First artificial satellites of a country.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Image
- SwissCube EPFL.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2009-09-23
- space launch vehicle
- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
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- SwissCube-1
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Encyclopedic overview
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SwissCube-1 is a Swiss satellite operated by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The spacecraft is a single unit CubeSat, which was designed to conduct research into nightglow within the Earth's atmosphere, and to develop technology for future spacecraft. It has also been used for amateur radio. It was the first Swiss satellite to be launched.
==History== thumb|The first airglow image of the satellite. SwissCube-1 was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation aboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, serial number C14, flying in the Core Alone, or PSLV-CA, configuration. The launch took place from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, at 06:21 UTC on 23 September 2009. SwissCube-1 was a secondary payload aboard the rocket, which deployed the Oceansat-2 satellite. Five other secondary payloads were flown aboard the rocket; BeeSat-1, UWE-2, ITU-pSat1, Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SwissCube-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.