
BeeSat 5-8 [TU Berlin]
BeeSat 5 to 8 (Berlin Experimental and Educational Satellite) is a pico satellite constellation project of the Technical University of Berlin for further development and verification of miniaturized components for distributed pico- and nanosatellite systems in the framework of the PiNaSys II program.
Essential functions of a distributed system are the communication and the relative navigation among the satellites. At TU Berlin a picosatellite swarm mission is developed consisting of the four 0.25U CubeSats BEESAT-5 to BEESAT-8 with a mass of 330 grams each. The picosatellites were designed fully redundant and almost complete single-fault tolerant.
The primary mission objective is to demonstrate a newly developed communications subsystem in the UHF band and an experimental GNSS receiver. Furthermore, the satellites contain a multifunction optical attitude determination sensor and are equipped with corner cube reflectors on all sides for laser ranging from ground.
There are two indentical sets of each four satellites: BeeSat 5 to 8 and BeeSat 10 to 13.
The four satellites fit together in a 1U CubeSat form factor space. Four satellites were originally to be launched on Spaceflight Industry's SSO-A multi-satellite launch on a Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) rocket, but missed the launch opportunity. BeeSat 10 to 13 were launched on an Soyuz launch in July 2019. BeeSat 5 to 8 are to follow later in 2019.
Satellite |
COSPAR |
Date |
LS |
|
Launch Vehicle |
Remarks |
BeeSat 5 (Tubsat 23) |
2021-022AM |
22.03.2021 |
Ba LC-31/6 |
|
Soyuz-2-1a Fregat |
with CAS500 1, ELSA-d Servicer, ELSA-d Client, GRUS 1B, ..., 1E, Najm 1, DMSat 1, UniSat 7, BCCSAT 1, FEES, DIY 1, SMOG 1, STECCO, SAMSON 1, 2, 3, Kepler 6, 7, NanoSatC-Br 2, KMSL, CANYVAL-C 1, 2, BeeSat 6, 7, 8, Hiber 3, CubeSX-HSE, CubeSX-Sirius-HSE, Orbicraft-Zorkiy, WildTrackCube-SIMBA, GRBAlpha, 3B5GSAT, LacunaSat 2b, ChallengeOne, KSU-Cubesat |
BeeSat 6 (Tubsat 24) |
2021-022AB |
22.03.2021 |
Ba LC-31/6 |
|
Soyuz-2-1a Fregat |
with CAS500 1, ELSA-d Servicer, ELSA-d Client, GRUS 1B, ..., 1E, Najm 1, DMSat 1, UniSat 7, BCCSAT 1, FEES, DIY 1, SMOG 1, STECCO, SAMSON 1, 2, 3, Kepler 6, 7, NanoSatC-Br 2, KMSL, CANYVAL-C 1, 2, BeeSat 5, 7, 8, Hiber 3, CubeSX-HSE, CubeSX-Sirius-HSE, Orbicraft-Zorkiy, WildTrackCube-SIMBA, GRBAlpha, 3B5GSAT, LacunaSat 2b, ChallengeOne, KSU-Cubesat |
BeeSat 7 (Tubsat 25) |
2021-022AN |
22.03.2021 |
Ba LC-31/6 |
|
Soyuz-2-1a Fregat |
with CAS500 1, ELSA-d Servicer, ELSA-d Client, GRUS 1B, ..., 1E, Najm 1, DMSat 1, UniSat 7, BCCSAT 1, FEES, DIY 1, SMOG 1, STECCO, SAMSON 1, 2, 3, Kepler 6, 7, NanoSatC-Br 2, KMSL, CANYVAL-C 1, 2, BeeSat 5, 6, 8, Hiber 3, CubeSX-HSE, CubeSX-Sirius-HSE, Orbicraft-Zorkiy, WildTrackCube-SIMBA, GRBAlpha, 3B5GSAT, LacunaSat 2b, ChallengeOne, KSU-Cubesat |
BeeSat 8 (Tubsat 26) |
2021-022AP |
22.03.2021 |
Ba LC-31/6 |
|
Soyuz-2-1a Fregat |
with CAS500 1, ELSA-d Servicer, ELSA-d Client, GRUS 1B, ..., 1E, Najm 1, DMSat 1, UniSat 7, BCCSAT 1, FEES, DIY 1, SMOG 1, STECCO, SAMSON 1, 2, 3, Kepler 6, 7, NanoSatC-Br 2, KMSL, CANYVAL-C 1, 2, BeeSat 5, 6, 7, Hiber 3, CubeSX-HSE, CubeSX-Sirius-HSE, Orbicraft-Zorkiy, WildTrackCube-SIMBA, GRBAlpha, 3B5GSAT, LacunaSat 2b, ChallengeOne, KSU-Cubesat |
BeeSat 10 (Tubsat 18) |
2019-038# |
05.07.2019 |
Vo LC-1S |
|
Soyuz-2-1b Fregat |
with Meteor-M 2-2, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, CarboNIX, DoT 1, Momentus X1, Lemur-2 100, ..., 107, NSLSat 1, SEAM 2.0, SONATE, JAISAT 1, EXOCONNECT, LightSat, UTE-Ecuador, Lucky-7, MOVE 2b, MTCube, TTÜ101, BeeSat 9, BeeSat 11, 12, 13, AmGU 1, Sokrat, VDNH-80 |
BeeSat 11 (Tubsat 19) |
2019-038# |
05.07.2019 |
Vo LC-1S |
|
Soyuz-2-1b Fregat |
with Meteor-M 2-2, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, CarboNIX, DoT 1, Momentus X1, Lemur-2 100, ..., 107, NSLSat 1, SEAM 2.0, SONATE, JAISAT 1, EXOCONNECT, LightSat, UTE-Ecuador, Lucky-7, MOVE 2b, MTCube, TTÜ101, BeeSat 9, BeeSat 10, 12, 13, AmGU 1, Sokrat, VDNH-80 |
BeeSat 12 (Tubsat 20) |
2019-038# |
05.07.2019 |
Vo LC-1S |
|
Soyuz-2-1b Fregat |
with Meteor-M 2-2, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, CarboNIX, DoT 1, Momentus X1, Lemur-2 100, ..., 107, NSLSat 1, SEAM 2.0, SONATE, JAISAT 1, EXOCONNECT, LightSat, UTE-Ecuador, Lucky-7, MOVE 2b, MTCube, TTÜ101, BeeSat 9, BeeSat 10, 11, 13, AmGU 1, Sokrat, VDNH-80 |
BeeSat 13 (Tubsat 21) |
2019-038# |
05.07.2019 |
Vo LC-1S |
|
Soyuz-2-1b Fregat |
with Meteor-M 2-2, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, CarboNIX, DoT 1, Momentus X1, Lemur-2 100, ..., 107, NSLSat 1, SEAM 2.0, SONATE, JAISAT 1, EXOCONNECT, LightSat, UTE-Ecuador, Lucky-7, MOVE 2b, MTCube, TTÜ101, BeeSat 9, BeeSat 10, 11, 12, AmGU 1, Sokrat, VDNH-80 |