HAUSAT 1

HAUSAT-1 (Hankuk Aviation University SATellite-1) is the first picosatellite in Korea developed by graduate students. The primary mission objective of HAUSAT-1 development is to offer graduate and undergraduate student great oppertunities and gelp them understand the whole developement processes of satellite design, analysis, manufacturing, assembly, inefration, test, launch, and operation, and consequently make them specialists in th field of satellite development. Acual mission objective in accordance with on-board payload are as followings; collecting the satellite position data with spaceborne GPS receiver, experiment on deployment mechanism of solar cell panel, space verificationof homemade sun sensor, and getting data related to satellite Status of Health (SOH) from various sensors.

The HAUSAT-1 will orbit at the altitude of perigee 600 km ~ apogee 650(~900) km eith 65 or 98 degree inclination angle for one year of design mission life. The HAUSAT-1 is planned to launch in the middle of 2004. THe HAUSAT-1 is designed with controller based on standby and warm redundancy. The payloads incorporated are a spaceborne GPS receiver, solar panel deployment mechnism, and a homemade sun sensor. A mass storage memory has 60 Mbits storage volume, which is a flash type having nonvolatile characteristic. Average power generated is about 1.5 watt. Communication band width is amateur HAM band and UHF/VHF antenna with dipole/monopole configuration which is made of flexible steel can be folded easily. HAUSAT-1 project is supported and funded by Space Core Technology Development program in MOST

The launch was not successful, as the Dnepr-1 failed 86 sec after launch.

Source: Hankuk Aviation University HAUSat website

Last update: 27.09.2009
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