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Lunar


Vermont Lunar CubeSat

General


Designation 39407 / 13064AD
Launch date 20 Nov 2013
Country of origin United States
Mission Technology
Perigee/Apogee 495 km
Inclination 40.5°
Period 94.4 min
Launch vehicle Minotaur #15

From Vermont Technical College

Will test their navigation system using NASA Goddard's GPS Enhanced Onboard Navigation System (GEONS) with a Novatel GPS and star tracker camera.
This system would be used on a follow up ion drive triple CubeSat to navigate to the Moon.
1U cubesat.

Downlink: 437.305 MHz

End of life


Decay 21 Nov 2015


External resources


http://www.cubesatlat.org

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n2yo.com tracking


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