RAMPART [Morehead State University]
Students at Morehead State University are building the RAMPART (Rapidprototyped MEMS Propulsion And Radiation Test) amateur radio CubeSat with a propulsion system that will raise the apogee of its orbit from 500 km to 1200 km.
It is a 2U CubeSat and will use a self-contained, warm gas, propulsion system to adjust satellite’s initial circular orbit of 500 km to an eliptical orbit with an apogee of 1200 km and perigee of 500 km at a 45° inclination.
The other objectives of the mission are:
RAMPART was to be launched as a piggy-back payload on a Minotaur-1 from Wallops Island in June 2013, but was delayed to a later launch. Apparently it has been cancelled.
Nation: | USA |
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Type / Application: | Experimental |
Operator: | Morehead State University |
Contractors: | Morehead State University |
Equipment: | |
Configuration: | CubeSat (2U) |
Propulsion: | Warm gas propulsion system |
Power: | Deployable solar arrays, batteries |
Lifetime: | 5 years |
Mass: | 3 kg |
Orbit: |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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RAMPART | - | cancelled | (via NASA ELaNa program) | with ? |