The ZACube-2 3U CubeSat South Africa is the second satellite in a long line of F’SATI missions. At the French-South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI) CPUT in Cape Town, South Africa, it was built.
Name of Satellite | ZACube-2 |
Purpose | Earth Observation |
Contractor | French South African Institute of Technology/Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
Country of Contractor | South Africa |
Launch Mass (kg.) | 4 |
Class of Orbit | LEO |
Perigee (km) | 480 |
Date of Launch | 27.11.2018 |
Launch Site | Vostochny Cosmodrome |
Launch Vehicle | Soyuz-2.1a |
COSPAR Number | 2018-111AH |
NORAD Number | 43907 |
ZACube-2 will be utilized as an example of technology demonstration for crucial subsystems and serve as the foundation for an innovative software-configurable radio (SDR) platform.