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PicPot
PicPot [Politecnico del Torino]
PicPot (Piccolo Cubo del Politecnico del Torino) is a small technology satellite built by the Polytechnic University of Torino. It has a cube-structure of 15 cm side length.
The objects of the PicPot project are:
- Students gaining experience of construction, production and control of automatic spacecraft;
- photographing the northern hemisphere of the Earth;
- technological tests under space conditions of silicic solar photoelectric elements intended for the use on Earth;
- testing the efficiency of litievo-polymeric batteries under the space conditions;
- testing a brushless direct-current motor;
- checking communication channels.
The launch was not successful, as the Dnepr failed 86 sec after launch.
| Nation: | Italy |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology |
| Operator: | Politecnico del Torino |
| Contractors: | Politecnico del Torino |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | Cube |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 2 kg |
| Orbit: |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PicPot | 2006-F03 | 26.07.2006 | Ba LC-109/95 | F | Dnepr | with BelKa 1, Baumanets 1, Unisat 4, CP 1, CP 2, HAUSAT 1, ICECube 1, ICECube 2, ION, KUTESat-Pathfinder, Mea Huaka'i, MEROPE, Ncube 1, Rincon 1, SACRED, SEEDS, AeroCube 1 |
