Thybolt 1 [Dhruva Space]
The Thybolt 1 and 2 satellites are 0.5U CubeSat technology demonstrators for Dhruva Space's modular Cubesat bus called P-DoT.
The 0.5U P-DoT Satellite Platform is envisioned to enable rapid development for experimentation by the amateur community. This mission provides a message store-and-forward capability to the users.
The mission shall demonstrate store-and-forward (S&F) operations and perform scheduled and unscheduled uplink of S&F data from amateur operators, store the data onboard and transmit the same data to distributed amateur radio compatible ground station/s in India and publish wherever required as per the Experiment Outline for Amateurs. Amateur operators can utilize this facility to evaluate their uplink equipment by sending S&F messages to the satellite and validate a successful downlink of sent messages from the website displaying all the S&F messages upon a ground station pass.
Nation: | India |
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Type / Application: | Technology, communications |
Operator: | Dhruva Space |
Contractors: | Dhruva Space |
Equipment: | Store-and-forward communications payload |
Configuration: | CubeSat (0.5U) |
Propulsion: | |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | 1 year |
Mass: | 0.5 kg |
Orbit: |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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Thybolt 1 | 2022-158C | 26.11.2022 | Sr FLP | PSLV-XL | with Oceansat 3, Pixxel-TD 1, INS 2B, Astrocast 0301, ..., 0304, Thybolt 2 | |
Thybolt 2 | 2022-158D | 26.11.2022 | Sr FLP | PSLV-XL | with Oceansat 3, Pixxel-TD 1, INS 2B, Astrocast 0301, ..., 0304, Thybolt 1 |