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Satellite Fact Sheet
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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