Microsats to deploy from UniSat-5

The following Microsats are planed to be launch by DNEPR rocket on April 15, 2013 unknown at the moment.

BRITE-PL1 (Website)
Space Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 437.xxxMHz, 2.2GHz

BRITE-PL

Delfi-n3Xt, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (Website)
uplink 435.530-435.570MHz
downlink 145.880-145.920MHz
telemetry and beacons 145.870/145.930MHz, 2405.000MHz

Delfi n3xt

[PE0SAT Thanks JE9PEL for the above information]

Delfi-n3Xt Deployment Antenna Board Arrived

Deployment & Antenna Board PCB Arrived

Friday, 30 March 2012 13:44 The newest and final Deployment & Antenna Board (DAB) PCB has arrived. This board manages the deployment of the antennae and solar panels, but also contains the antenna boxes and contains a RF phasing and isolation network, The coming weeks, this board will be populated with all components and tested. If everything goes well, this will be flight hardware.

Delfi-n3Xt Deployment Antenna Board

[PE0SAT Thanks Delfi-n3Xt News for the above information]

Lecture Cubesats Veron Breda

Veron LogoHot off the press – Lecture Cubesats Veron Breda (R07)

Wouter Weggelaar (PA3WEG) will give a lecture on cubsats including Delfi-C3, Delfi-n3Xt and FUNcube on March 6, 2012. The lecture will take place during one of the club nights of Veron Breda (R07). For details, see the website from Veron Breda.

A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that usually has a volume of exactly one liter (10 cm cube), has a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms, and typically uses commercial off-the-shelf electronics components. Beginning in 1999, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and Stanford University developed the CubeSat specifications to help P-Pod Launcheruniversities worldwide to perform space science and exploration. Since CubeSats are all 10×10 cm (regardless of length) they can all be launched and deployed using a common deployment system. CubeSats are typically launched and deployed from a mechanism called a Poly-PicoSatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD), also developed and built by Cal Poly. P-PODs are mounted to a launch vehicle and carry CubeSats into orbit and deploy them once the proper signal is received from the launch vehicle. P-PODs have deployed over 90% of all CubeSats launched to date (including un-successful launches), and 100% of all CubeSats launched since 2006.