Ex-Alta 1 [University of Alberta]
Ex-Alta 1 (Experimental Albertan 1) is a Canadian 3U-CubeSat designed by the Department of Physics of the University of Alberta participating in the QB50 project.
Ex-Alta 1 carries a digital fluxgate magnetometer for the University of Alberta and the multi-Needle Langmuir Probe (mNLP) payload for QB50.
The Ex-Alta 1 Satellite has the following science objectives:
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.
The satellites of the QB50 constellation were launched to the ISS in mid 2016, from where the satellite was deployed on 26 May 2017.
Nation: | Canada |
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Type / Application: | Technology, thermospheric research |
Operator: | University of Alberta |
Contractors: | University of Alberta |
Equipment: | Digital fluxgate magnetometer, mNLP |
Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
Propulsion: | None |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 months |
Mass: | 4 kg |
Orbit: | 397 km × 408 km, 51.64° |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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Ex-Alta 1 (QB50 CA03) | 1998-067MP | 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, 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, BeEagleSat, HAVELSAT, Phoenix, PolyITAN-2-SAU, QBUS 1, QBUS 2, QBUS 4, CSUNSat 1, CXBN 2, KySat 3, SHARC, Lemur-2 30, ..., 33 |