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 ther additional experiments including a VLF receiver. After 569 days in space contact with the radio was lost. 22 out of 25 experiments were successful.
SPECIFICATIONS
| Size | 1U |
| Weight | 1045 g |
| Radio | 437.1 MHz (UHF) 2.401 GHz (S-Band) |
| Orbit height | 500-550 km |
| Orbit type | Sun-synchronous |
| Launch Vehicle | PSLV-XL |
| Launch date | 23 June 2017 |
| Status | Decayed (active for 569 days after launch) |
| Decay Date | 11 Nov 2023 |
| Days in Orbit | 2 332 days |
