TIGRISAT

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TIGRISAT is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40043

Int'l Code: 2014-033AK

Perigee: 591.1 km

Apogee: 662.9 km

Inclination: 97.7 °

Period: 97.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 6998 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 19, 2014
Source: IRAQ (IRAK)
Launch site: Orenburg, Russia (OREN)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 435.000
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: 9600bps FSK
Call sign: HNATIG
Status: Active

TIGRISAT is an Iraqi 3U CubeSat built by Iraqi students at the La Sapienza University of Rome with a mission to detect dust storms over Iraq. The 3U cubesat features a RGB camera with a new scripted algorithm for dust detection. It has a deployable VHF/UHF antenna for telemetry telecommand and beacon and a S-Band antenna. Embedded magnetic coils inside solar panels provide attitude control to enable nadir pointing. Tigrisat transmits images to two ground stations, one located in Rome and another in Baghdad.

1 40043U 14033AK  25168.69862586  .00002121  00000-0  26162-3 0  9990
2 40043  97.7368 323.7182 0051292 187.8356 172.2063 14.82989305591865

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech