LilacSat 1 [HIT]
LilacSat 1 is a 2U-CubeSat for education, upper atmosphere science, amateur radio communication and technology demonstration, built by a team of students of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).
It is a part of the QB50 constellation. The QB50 project, which demonstrates the possibility of launching a network of 50 CubeSats built by Universities Teams all over the world to perform first-class science in the largely unexplored lower thermosphere.
LilacSat 1 carries three mission payloads:
The satellite was launched with the bulk of the QB50 constellation to the ISS in 2017, from where the satellite was deployed on 25 May 2017. The in-orbit lifetime of LilacSat-1 is about 3 months, from deployment to de-orbit.
Nation: | China |
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Type / Application: | Education, amateur radio communication, technology |
Operator: | Harbin Institute of Technology, CAMSAT |
Contractors: | Harbin Institute of Technology |
Equipment: | INMS, V/U APRS digipeater, thermal infrared camera |
Configuration: | CubeSat (2U) |
Propulsion: | None |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 months |
Mass: | 2 kg |
Orbit: | 402 km × 403 km, 51.64° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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LilacSat 1 (Zidingxiang 1, QB50 CN02, QB50 BE02, LO 90, LilacSat-OSCAR 90) | 1998-067ME | 18.04.2017 | CC SLC-41 | Atlas-5(401) | with Cygnus CRS-7, ALTAIR 1, SUSat, UNSW-EC0, i-INSPIRE 2, ZA-AeroSat, nSIGHT 1, Ex-Alta 1, NJUST 1, Aoxiang 1, SOMP 2, QBITO, Aalto 2, X-CubeSat, SpaceCube, DUTHSat, UPSat, Hoopoe, LINK, SNUSAT 1, SNUSAT 1b, qbee50-LTU-OC, BeEagleSat, HAVELSAT, Phoenix, PolyITAN-2-SAU, QBUS 1, QBUS 2, QBUS 4, IceCube, CSUNSat 1, CXBN 2, KySat 3, SHARC, Lemur-2 30, ..., 33 |