SwissCube

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General

Designation	35932 / 09051B
Launch date	23 Sep 2009
Country of origin	Switzerland
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	720/731 km, sun-synchronous
Inclination	98.3°
Period	99.2 min
Launch vehicle	PSLV #16

Mass of 1 kg

Built by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Will take optical airglow measurements validating the use of low-cost off-the-shelf detectors for these observations.

Downlinks at 437.505 MHz

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External resources

http://swisscube.epfl.ch/

sat-index articles

n2yo.com tracking

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