SSETI-Express [SSETI]
The SSETI Express (Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative - Express) mission is an educational mission that shall deploy CUBESAT pico-satellites developed by universities, take pictures of Earth, act as a test-bed and technology demonstration for hardware of the complementary project: the European Student Earth Orbiter, and function as an radio transponder for the rest of its mission duration.
To accomplish SSETI Express's mission statement, the following objectives have been developed:
Three cubesats were deployed by SSETI Express. They will be deployed from a T-Pod developed by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory, Toronto
SSETI Express was launched in October 2005 onboard a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
Nation: | Europe |
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Type / Application: | Technology |
Operator: | SSETI |
Contractors: | SSETI |
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Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
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Orbit: | 682 km × 708 km, 98.18° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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SSETI-Express (XO 53, eXpress-OSCAR 53) | 2005-043E | 27.10.2005 | Pl LC-132/1 | Kosmos-3M | with TopSat 1, China-DMC+4, Mozhayets 5, Sina 1, UWE 1, XI 5, Ncube 2, Rubin 5-ASOLANT |