Teamet bakom Lituanica har nu meddelat att nästa satellit, LituanicaSAT-2, är på gång. LituanicaSAT-2 kommer att vara mer avancerad än LituanicaSAT-1 med bla. möjlighet att aktivt ändra bana med hjälp av hjälpmotorer/raketer. Därför beräknas den kunna vara i bana under ca. 18 månader. Läs mer:
The LituanicaSAT team has announced on Facebook that the
LituanicaSAT-2 CubeSat will be coming soon.
It is hoped the CubeSat will be among 50 satellites launched in the
1st quarter of 2016 on the Ukrainian Cyclone 4 launcher from the
Alcantara launch site built by Ukraine and Brazil. The new launch
site is located near the Atlantic coast of Brazil just 2.3 degrees
south of the equator.
LituanicaSAT-2 will be more complex than the first and will test a
new propulsion system which will enable it to change orbit.
Currently CubeSats deployed in very low Earth orbit may only last 3
months before burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, the propulsion
system could extend that up to 18 months.
Read the 15min.lt article about LituanicaSAT-2 in Google English at
http://tinyurl.com/LituanicaSAT-2-15min
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Lituanicasat1
You can watch a presentation by Gintautas Sulskus on the first
LituanicaSAT CubeSat at
http://amsat-uk.org/colloquium/colloquium-2014/presentation-videos/
LituanicaSAT-1
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/02/27/lituanicasat-1-cubesat/
QB50 to use Alcantara launch site
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/01/28/qb50-cubesat-launch-contract-signed/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]