ZACUBE

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ZACUBE is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39417

Int'l Code: 2013-066B

Perigee: 574.7 km

Apogee: 643.3 km

Inclination: 97.7 °

Period: 96.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6979 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: November 21, 2013
Source: South Africa (SAFR)
Launch site: Orenburg, Russia (OREN)

Uplink (MHz): 145.860
Downlink (MHz): 437.355
Beacon (MHz): 14.099
Mode: 1k2AFSK/9k6* GMSK CW
Call sign: 123456
Status: Active

ZACUBE is a student-developed 1U CubeSat of CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology), Cape Town, South Africa. Its main payload is a high frequency (HF) beacon transmitter that will be used to help characterize the Earth’s ionosphere and to calibrate SANSA's (South African National Space Agency) auroral radar installation at the SANAE-IV base in Antarctica.

1 39417U 13066B   24131.82459876  .00009179  00000-0  96521-3 0  9992
2 39417  97.7324  88.6512 0049111 284.7664  74.8114 14.88749512566024

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech