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Painani 1
Painani 1 [SEDENA]
Painani 1 is an experimental nanosatellite owned by Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), the Mexican defence agency, and developed by the Universidad del Ejerito y Fuerza Aerea.
It is a 3U CubeSat and carries four small low resolution cameras as a technology experiment, which are only operated over Mexican territory. The data will be downlinked by an S-band downlink using frequency hopping technology. The purpose of the mission is to enable students of the Ensenada Centre for Scientfic and Higher Education to experiment on improving digital signal processing and Earth station software.
It was launched as an undisclosed commercial payload launched on a shared launch on an Electron KS in June 2019 from New Zealand, and was onyl identfied several weeks later by the New Zealand Space Angency.
A second satellite is planned for 2020.
| Nation: | Mexico |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology, earth observation |
| Operator: | Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), Universidad del Ejerito y Fuerza Aerea |
| Contractors: | Universidad del Ejerito y Fuerza Aerea |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 3.3 kg |
| Orbit: | 447 km × 460 km, 45.01° (#1) |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Painani 1 | 2019-037A | 29.06.2019 | OnS LC-1A | Electron KS | with BlackSky 3, Prometheus 2.7, Prometheus 2.9, ACRUX 1, SpaceBEE 8, 9 | |
| Painani 2 | 2021-059BB | 30.06.2021 | CC SLC-40 | Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) | with Starlink v1.5 R1-1, ..., R1-3, Umbra-SAR 2001, YAM 2, YAM 3, ÑuSat 19, ..., 22, ICEYE X11, X12, X13, X15, TUBIN, Mandrake 2A, 2B, Capella 5, GNOMES 2, LINCS 1, 2, PACE 1, TROPICS 01, D2/AtlaCom 1, EG 3, Centauri 4, Lemur-2 140, ..., 145, SpaceBEE 88, ..., 111, SpaceBEENZ 7, ..., 10, Sherpa-FX 2, Lynk 06, Hawk 3A, 3B, 3C, Astrocast 0201, ..., 0205, Sherpa-LTE 1, Tenzing, Aurora, Arthur 1, Faraday Phoenix, KSF 1A, ..., 1D, Tiger 2, ION-SCV 003, NAPA 2, Spartan, Neptuno, W-Cube, Ghalib, QMR-KWT |
References:
- Stuff: Rocket Lab's secret payload owned by Mexican defence agency, 22 July 2019
- IARU: PAINANI
- CICESE: Subsystems of Painani I
