FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCH TO SPACE PERU

CONTRACT SIGNED FOR FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCH TO SPACE UAPSAT PERUVIAN-1

Posted: 06/09/2012

 

Lima, September 5, 2012. - The Peruvian Wings University and the Dutch company SPACE ISIS will sign contracts required by international standards governing the launching all kinds of spacecraft, to place in orbit UAPSAT-1, Peruvian first satellite, which will be placed aboard a U.S. rocket innovative FALCON - 9, operated by the consortium SPACE-X, from the famous Cape Canaveral U.S. location, in the first quarter of 2013.

The ceremony will be invited to the Peruvian Space Agency (CONIDA), which managed the orbital floor which will operate the satellite, the Radio Club Peruano (RCP), which was the first institution to work for the project was granted frequencies radio link, the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), whose area Jicamarca Radio Observatory, consider the possibility of some kind of experiment for the estimated lifetime UAPSAT-1, and the Peruvian Association of Astronomy, ( APA).

The step is to formalize the 13th of September this is an absolute requirement for the scientific community, to the extent that the agency holds internationally ISIS their specialty in satellites of this type, having the ability to make the certifications that our picosatellite credited to fulfill the conditions for traveling in space and orbit the Earth practice with satellites of all types and different countries.

The purpose of UAPSAT-1, which weighs only one kilogram, is purely "academic", ie to serve students and university professionals know more about the behavior of a system developed in its laboratories and leading electronic components and sub spatial software designed in college, to record their performance and response that will give orders from the earth station is deployed from scratch in the PSU campus located in the Lima district of Pueblo Libre.

Also have during its lifetime, estimated at two months, tasks like collecting and sending data to Earth, climate, temperatures, etc., you can share the country with various entities, the information gathered by the satellite peak will public and will be available to the entities to be useful.

The spacecraft may also serve as trials to locate satellites larger areas vulnerable to disasters caused by climate change, which will help predict and prevent fatal consequences in the Peruvian population.

Transmit an audible signal receivers on Earth, identifying their path, sending commands to PCs to interpret such national anthem. The essential mission of testing consist picosatellite technologies to be employed in it, being called the country towards the study of science, and also let you know the scope that can be obtained with higher capacity satellites (called microsatellites, which are in the order of 60 to 130 kg) attached mission is to demonstrate to learners of all levels of the country the chances of developing science and technology in our country, considering that there is still a window of two months for the start UAPSAT undergo to rigorous testing required for certification will be an opportunity to define some experiments that could be performed in conjunction with other national or evidence to the team by running some commands to interact with the population.