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BeEagleSat (QB50 TR01)
BeEagleSat [ITÜ]
BeEagleSat is a 2U CubeSat to be launched within the EU FP7 project QB 50. It is being produced by Istanbul Technical University and Turkish Air Force Academy. Sabanci University provided a CdZnTe based semiconductor X-ray detector and associated readout electronics.
The X-ray detector utilizes cross strip geometry to test the detection system in space, but it does not carry a mask for imaging. The readout was be established by an application specific integrated circuit controlled by a microcontroller. The system had its own battery and was turned on intermittently due to power and telemetry constraints. It characterizes the hard X-ray background in 20-150 keV at low Earth orbit conditions as a function of altitude.
As a payload for QB50, the satellite carries a multineedle Langmuir probe (mNLP) sampling the electron density of the space around it.
The satellite was launched with the bulk of the QB50 constellation to the ISS in 2017, from where the satellite was deployed on 26 May 2017.
| Nation: | Turkey |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology, atmospheric science |
| Operator: | Istanbul Technical University, Turkish Air Force Academy |
| Contractors: | Istanbul Technical University, Turkish Air Force Academy |
| Equipment: | mNLP, X-ray detector |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (2U) |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | 3 months |
| Mass: | 2 kg |
| Orbit: | 395 km × 411 km, 51.63° |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeEagleSat (QB50 TR01) | 1998-067MR | 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, LilacSat 1, NJUST 1, Aoxiang 1, SOMP 2, QBITO, Aalto 2, X-CubeSat, SpaceCube, DUTHSat, UPSat, Hoopoe, LINK, SNUSAT 1, SNUSAT 1b, qbee50-LTU-OC, HAVELSAT, Phoenix, PolyITAN-2-SAU, QBUS 1, QBUS 2, QBUS 4, IceCube, CSUNSat 1, CXBN 2, KySat 3, SHARC, Lemur-2 30, ..., 33 |
Set 1 (INMS)
- QB50 P1 (QB50P1)
- QB50 AU01 (SUSat)
- QB50 AU02 (UNSW-EC0)
- QB50 AZ01 (ZA-AeroSat)
- QB50 CN01 (BUSAT 1)
- QB50 CN02 (LilacSat 1)
- QB50 CN04 (Aoxiang 1)
- QB50 CN06 (NUDTSat)
- QB50 ES01 (QBITO)
- QB50 GB03 (UCLSat)
- QB50 KR01 (LINK)
- QB50 TW01 (Phoenix)
- QB50 US01 (QBUS 1, Challenger)
- QB50 US03 (QBUS 3, Discovery)
- QB50 P2 (QB50P2)
- QB50 AZ02 (nSIGHT 1)
- QB50 BR01 (14-BISat)
- QB50 CN03 (NJUST 1)
- QB50 CZ02 (VZLUsat 1)
- QB50 DE02 (SOMP 2)
- QB50 FR01 (X-CubeSat)
- QB50 FR03 (IP2SAT)
- QB50 FR05 (SpaceCube)
- QB50 IN01 (ANUSAT 2)
- QB50 KR02 (SNUSAT 1)
- QB50 KR03 (SNUSAT 1b)
- QB50 LT01 (LituanicaSAT 2)
- QB50 PT01 (GAMASAT 1)
- QB50 RU01 (SamSat-QB50)
- QB50 SE01 (qbee50-LTU-OC)
- QB50 UA01 (PolyITAN-2-SAU)
- QB50 US02 (QBUS 2, Atlantis)
- QB50 US04 (QBUS 4, Columbia)
