Norad Identifikationsnummer: 43132
| Name im Katalog Spacetrack | PICSAT |
| In die Umlaufbahn bringen |
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| Deorbitation |
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| Herkunftsland/-organisation | Francja (FR) |
| Wir analysieren den polnischen Text, der 'Miejsce startu' lautet. | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
| WWW | hier |
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| Perygeum | 483 km |
| Apogäum | 498 km |
PicSat is a French nano-satellite, a CubeSat made of 3 units (3U), designed to measure the transit of the planet Beta Pictoris b in front of its star Beta Pictoris. PicSat was designed and built by a small team of scientists and engineers led by Dr. Sylvestre Lacour, astrophysicist and instrumentalist at the High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics group of the LESIA laboratory at the Paris Observatory / PSL Research University / CNRS. The satellite was launched on January 12, 2018. It operated for more than 10 weeks, then fell silent on March 20, 2018.
der Satellit PICSAT hinausgetragen 12.01.2018r.