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FUNcube-1
is a complete educational single unit
CubeSat
satellite
with the goal of enthusing and educating young people about radio, space, physics and electronics. It is part of a program which aims to launch more of these educational CubeSats.
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It is the first satellite with outreach as its primary mission.
FUNcube project
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Project
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The FUNcube project was started in the UK by
AMSAT-UK
. The satellite has been developed by a team of volunteers from
AMSAT-UK
and
AMSAT-NL
, and was assembled at ISIS in Delft. It has been designated with
OSCAR
number 73 by
AMSAT
and is now also known as AO-73.
Mission
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As part of its mission, FUNcube-1 carries a materials science experiment, from which the school students can receive telemetry data and which they can compare to the results they obtained from similar reference experiments in the classroom. This experiment resembles the
Leslie's Cube
experiment. One of the first schools to use FUNcube-1 in the classroom was
Abbeys Primary School
in Bletchley which also featured in the BBC breakfast news two days after launch.
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Satellite
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Instruments
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FUNcube-1 is equipped with a UHF to VHF
linear transponder
with approx 300 mW PEP output and which can be used by Radio Amateurs worldwide for SSB and CW communications during the weekends.
Specifications
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Frequencies
:
- Telemetry down link 145.935 MHz 1200bd
BPSK
with
FEC
- Transponder Uplink 435.150 - 435.130 MHz LSB (Inverting)
- Downlink 145.950 - 145.970 MHz USB
Maximum uplink power of 5 watts to a 7 dBi gain antenna, more power is not needed to use the transponder. Transponder is SSB/CW Inverting.
Launch
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FUNcube-1 was launched at 07:10:11 UTC on 21 November 2013,
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as part of the ISILaunch03 campaign,
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aboard a
Dnepr rocket
, from Yasny Launch Base, Russia. The launch was contracted by ISL, and operated by
ISC Kosmotras
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Distribution
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The FUNcube distributed
ground station
network (DGSN) is used in which
radio amateurs
receive packets and send these via the internet to the central data collection server, called the data warehouse.
To enable easy reception, one of the FUNcube team members, Howard Long G6LVB, has created a USB connected receiver called the FUNcube Dongle.
See also
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References
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External links
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January
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February
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- Intelsat 27
- Globalstar
M078, M087, M093, M094, M095, M096
- Azerspace-1/Africasat-1a
,
Amazonas 3
- Progress M-18M
- Landsat 8
- SARAL
,
Sapphire
,
NEOSSat
,
UniBRITE-1
,
TUGSAT-1
,
AAUSat-3
,
STRaND-1
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March
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April
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- Anik G1
- Bion-M No.1
(Aist 2, BeeSat-2, BeeSat-3, SOMP,
Dove-2
,
OSSI-1
)
- Cygnus Mass Simulator
,
Dove 1
,
Alexander
,
Graham
,
Bell
- Progress M-19M
- Gaofen 1
,
TurkSat-3USat
,
NEE-01 Pegaso
, CubeBug-1
- Kosmos 2485
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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- Mars Orbiter Mission
- Soyuz TMA-11M
- Globus-1M No.13L
- MAVEN
- ORS-3, STPSat-3, Black Knight 1, CAPE-2, ChargerSat-1, COPPER, DragonSat-1, Firefly (satellite), Ho'oponopono-2, Horus, KySat-2, NPS-SCAT, ORSES, ORS Tech 1, 2,
PhoneSat
2.4,
Prometheus
× 8, SENSE A, B, SwampSat,
TJ
3
Sat
, Trailblazer-1,
Vermont Lunar CubeSat
- Yaogan 19
- DubaiSat-2
, STSAT-3, SkySat-1, UniSat-5 (Dove 4,
ICube-1
, HumSat-D, PUCP-Sat 1 (Pocket-PUCP), BeakerSat-1,
$50SAT
, QBScout-1, WREN),
AprizeSat
7, 8,
Lem
, WNISat-1, GOMX-1, CubeBug-2,
Delfi-n3Xt
, Dove 3, First-MOVE,
FUNcube-1
, HINCube-1, KHUSat-1, KHUSat-2,
NEE-02 Krysaor
,
OPTOS
, Triton 1, UWE-3, VELOX-P2,
ZACUBE-1
, BPA-3
- Swarm
A, B, C
- Shiyan 5
- Progress M-21M
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December
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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