TIGRISAT

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TIGRISAT is classified as:

NORAD ID: 40043

Int'l Code: 2014-033AK

Perigee: 584.8 km

Apogee: 655.7 km

Inclination: 97.8 °

Period: 97.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 6991 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  26163.19753014  .00001997  00000-0  23434-3 0  9995
2 40043  97.7821 313.3239 0050709  91.1559 269.5467 14.85144158644882

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech