ZACUBE

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ZACUBE is classified as:

NORAD ID: 39417

Int'l Code: 2013-066B

Perigee: 590.5 km

Apogee: 673.4 km

Inclination: 97.6 °

Period: 97.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 7002 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   21059.43812135  .00000258  00000-0  38376-4 0  9990
2 39417  97.5845  49.4703 0059228 157.1741 203.2126 14.81436391392935

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech