Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
Russia
Date
Fri, 26 May 2006 18:50:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4771 ever
Mission
The COMPASS-2 or DragSail-Cubesat cubesat project is conducted at the Fachhochschule Aachen for educational purposes and technology demonstration. COMPASS-2 is an universal experimental satellite bus, providing the subsystems for the payloads such as electric power, data storage and handling, attitude control and communication. The center 1U module contains the satellite's avionics, while the two outer 1U payload boxes offer companies and universities an easy way to test and validate their experiments in space.