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skCUBE

The first slovak satellite in space powered by Slovak Organization for Space Activities.

This project’s main objective was to gain hands-on experience with everything involved in satellite manufacturing and to strengthen Slovakia’s position within the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) group of cooperating states.

Spacemanic was established as a spin-off company from this paramount Slovak project. skCUBE was launched to space on June 23, 2017, at approximately 03:59 UTC on an Indian rocket PSLV-XL, from Cosmodrome Sriharikota.

skCUBE carried a digipeater on UHF, a CW beacon on UHF and an imager using 2.4 GHz downlinks. There were also other additional experiments including a VLF receiver. After 569 days in space, contact with the radio was lost. 22 out of 25 experiments were successful.

skCUBE website

Specifications

Size

Weight

Radio

Orbit height

Orbit type

Launch vehicle

Launch date

Status

Decay date

Days in orbit

1U

1 045 g

437.1 MHz (UHF)
2.401 GHz (S-Band)

500 – 550 km

Sun-synchronous

PSLV-XL

June 23, 2017

MDecayed
(active for 569 days after launch)

November 11, 2023

2 332 days

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