COMPASS-2 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

26 May 2006, 6:50pm

UTC

Location

Pad

Ekaterinburg (K-84)

Launch Service Provider

Vehicle

Mission

COMPASS-2

Mission Type

Communications

Destination

Low Earth Orbit

The COMPASS-2 or DragSail-Cubesat cubesat project is conducted at the Fachhochschule Aachen for educational purposes and technology demonstration. COMPASS-2 is an universal experimental satellite bus, providing the subsystems for the payloads such as electric power, data storage and handling, attitude control and communication. The center 1U module contains the satellite's avionics, while the two outer 1U payload boxes offer companies and universities an easy way to test and validate their experiments in space.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:59pm UTC

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