UCISAT

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UCISAT is a student-run CubeSat project at the University of California, Irvine.

[edit] Satellites

[edit] UCISAT-1

UCISAT-1 is the first pico-satellite under development by the University of California, Irvine. The primary mission payload is a CMOS camera which will photograph the Earth from Low Earth Orbit and transmit images back to the K6UCI Ground Station. The secondary mission payload is a 6-DOF inertial measurement unit that will measure the spacecraft's rate of tumble from the time of deployment until it is stabilized by a passive magnetic attitude control system. The satellite is currently competing to be on the launch manifest of a NASA-owned Taurus rocket (developed by Orbital Sciences) in December 2008. The primary payload of the Taurus rocket is NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite.

[edit] External links

The project's website can be access via http://www.ucisat.org

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