PRETTY (original) (raw)
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PRETTY [ESA]
PRETTY (Passive REflecTomeTry and dosimetrY) is a 3U CubeSat carrying with two payloads:
- Primary Payload: passive reflectometer in the L5 Band (1176.45 MHz) for GPS and Galileo.
- Secondary Payload: radiation monitor for TID (Total Ionizing Dose) and SEE (Single Event Effect) measurements
The PRETTY consortium comprises: ESA IOD (In Orbit Demonstrator), Beyond Gravity (Wien, Austria) as Prime Contractor, the Technische Universit�t Graz (Austria) for Satellite Bus development and AIT (based on ESA OPSSAT satellite bus) and Seibersdorf Laboratories (Austria) for the Secondary Payload Dosimeter.
PRETTY is based on ESA's OPS-SAT platform.
| Nation: | Europe |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Technology |
| Operator: | PRETTY consortium |
| Contractors: | PRETTY consortium |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | 2 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | |
| Orbit: | 511 km × 529 km, 97.46� |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRETTY | 2023-155H | 09.10.2023 | Ko ELV | Vega | with THEOS 2, TRITON, PROBA V-CC,CSC 1, 2, MACSAT, ANSER L, F1, F2, ESTCube 2, N3SS, PRETTY |