To receive Masat-1, the location and timing of it’s appearance must be known. The location and timing is not easy to determine, as the satellite is a 10 cm cube orbiting 300-1400 km from the Earth’s surface. The task is the following: to determine the orbit of our satellite. The task is ...
We still enthusiastically track each pass of the satellite. On the 21st of March we have downloaded two images altogether with some results of a long-term measurement required for the set-up of the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS). Masat-1 is all OK. The “darkest” day has...