CNUSail 1 (Papillon) (original) (raw)
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CNUSail-1 (Papillon) [Chungnam National University]
CNUSail 1 (Chungnam National University Sail) or Papillon is a solar sail experiment based on a 3U cubesat developed at the Chungnam National University, South Korea.
The purpose of the CNUSAIL-1 is to successfully deploy the solar sail in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and to perform de-orbiting using the sail membrane as a drag-sail. Deployment systems consist of quadrant sail membranes, four steel booms, and a spiral torsional. To produce high propellant, Kapton sheet with ultra-thin thickness (about 0.25 µm) is prepared as the sail membranes. The proposed Steel booms are C-shaped with 0.2 mm wall thickness and have a weight of 72 g per meter. The booms in the CNUSAIL-1 have 1.42 m length when fully deployed.
The satellite was to be launched as a secondary payload on a Falcon-9 v1.2 rocket, but was later moved to a PSLV-XL rocket. It wass expected to operate for three months.
Launch and deployment was successful, but the satellite apparently failed to work.
Nation: | South Korea |
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Type / Application: | Technology |
Operator: | Chungnam University |
Contractors: | Chungnam University |
Equipment: | Solar sail |
Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
Propulsion: | None |
Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
Lifetime: | 3 months |
Mass: | 4 kg |
Orbit: | 493 km × 506 km, 97.55� |
Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks |
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CNUSail 1 (Papillon) | 2018-004Y | 12.01.2018 | Sr FLP | PSLV-XL | with Cartosat 2F, Microsat-TD, LEO Vantage 1, Carbonite 2, ICEYE X1, INS 1C, Arkyd 6A, CICERO 7, Landmapper-BC 3 v2, Lemur-2 68, ..., 71, Flock-3p' 1, ..., 4, MicroMAS 2a, PicSat, CANYVAL-X 1, 2, KAUSAT 5, SIGMA, DemoSat 2, GeoStare, Fox 1D, STEP Cube Lab, SpaceBEE 1, ..., 4 |
References:
- In-Seuck Jeung, Ji Hyun Park: Recent status of CubeSat development as the UNISEC-Global activity: Korea, The Second UNISEC-Global Meeting, 18-20 November 2014