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Other Designations: Technical University of Berlin Satellite. Class: Technology. Nation: Germany. Manufacturer: Technische Universitat Berlin. Following the success of the magnetic torque attitude control system that flew on Tubsat-A, researchers and students at Germany's Technical University of Berlin constructed Tubsat-B to test and demonstrate attitude control with a star sensor and three reaction wheels. An on-board 1m telescope is used for astronomy and for Earth observation at 10m resolution.
SpecificationTotal Length: 0.5 m. Maximum Diameter: 0.3 m. Total Mass: 40 kg.
Tubsat-B Chronology
25 January 1994
Tubsat-B Program: Tubsat. Launch Site: Plesetsk . Launch Vehicle: Tsyklon 3. Mass: 40 kg. Perigee: 1,184 km. Apogee: 1,210 km. Inclination: 82.6 deg. Test of spacecraft attitude control system.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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