The 2nd AAU Satellite
AAUSAT-II
The 2nd AAU Satellite
AAUSAT-II
On the 28th of April 2008, almost 5 years after the launch of the first AAU satellite, the AAU CubeSat, Aalborg University's second student-built CubeSat, the AAUSAT-II, was ready to be launched.
Around 150 students from different departments at Aalborg University participated in the project and in the development and launch of the AAUSAT-II. The project ran from 2005 until the launch in 2008. The satellite, like the AAU CubeSat, was a CubeSat measuring 10 x 10 x 10 cm and weighing 750 grams.
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
AAUSAT-II
The AAUSAT-II was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India via a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle – an Indian-developed launch vehicle. In addition to many valuable learnings as well as hands-on training for the students, the technical mission of the AAUSAT-II was to send a radiation detector for Denmark's Space Center into outer space. The radiation detector on the AAUSAT-II was back then the first of its type and size ever to reach outer space.
Today, approximately 15 years later, the ground station at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University continues to receive signals from the AAUSAT-II. The satellite is still considered to be operational, but strong vibrations in the satellite makes it impossible to decode the data the ground station receives.
You can follow the location of the AAUSAT-II in real time right here
Satellite Facts
Name: AAUSAT-II (AAUSAT2)
Type: CubeSat
Units or mass: 1U
Status: Operational (Last SatNOGS report with data 2020-12-20, last checked on 2020-12-27)
Launched: 2008-04-28
NORAD ID: 32788
Deployer: XPOD (eXperimental Push Out Deployer) [UTIAS/SFL]
Launcher: PSLV
Organisation: Aalborg University
Entity: Academic / Education
Nation: Denmark
Launch brokerer: Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS-SFL)
Oneliner: Education space systems engineering with focus on ADCS and gamma-ray experiment.
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