KEPLER-0 (KIPP)

KEPLER-0 (KIPP) is no longer on orbit

NORAD ID: 43157
Int'l Code: 2018-008C
Launch date: January 19, 2018
Source: Canada (CA)
Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China (JSC)
Decay date: 2024-04-17

KIPP is the first Canadian satellite launched on a Chinese rocket, and the first commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite to use Ku-band frequencies. Nicknamed KIPP after a robot in the 2014 sci-fi movie “Interstellar,” the 30-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter nanosatellite is the first of two demonstration satellites Scotland’s Clyde Space built for Kepler, which aims to deploy a constellation of 140 satellites to connect devices on Earth and in space.

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