User:CoreOf/CroCube

CroCube is a project of designing and launching of Croatia's first satellite. It is a 1U CubeSat (1U = 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm) weighting around 1.1 kg, equipped with two cameras and an amateur-radio transmitter. It's mission is to take photographs of Earth from 550 km above sea level. It will be able to take photographs of Croatia 3 times a day, for 12 minutes each time. Project is based on a crowdfunding campaign available on Croatian platform Croinvest. Project was initiated by Daniela Jović, COO of Slovak space company Spacemanic, together with Society for Out-of-Frame Education, a non-governmental organisation that aims to educate people of all age groups in the critical way of thinking, and promote freedom of thought, opinion and expression.

Components

 * on-board computer: Spacemanic Eddie
 * power supply: Spacemanic AMUN & Spacemanic RA solar panels
 * communication: Spacemanic Murgas
 * payload: 4D systems UCAM-III &i PulsarLabs AstroTron 1000

Launch
Launch is planned for Q1 2024 on SpaceX's Transporter-10 mission.