ZACUBE

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ZACUBE is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39417

Int'l Code: 2013-066B

Perigee: 584.3 km

Apogee: 661.6 km

Inclination: 97.7 °

Period: 97.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 6993 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/9k6GMSK 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   23089.37779639  .00006402  00000-0  74929-3 0  9999
2 39417  97.6772  53.8843 0055268 184.6697 175.4010 14.84279843505505

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech