FLORIPASAT-2 MISSION – SpaceLab UFSC

FLORIPASAT-2 MISSION

mission description

FloripaSat-2 is a mission composed of two nanosatellites, FloripaSat-2A and FloripaSat-2B, developed under the FloripaSat-2 platform to validate a Brazilian CubeSat architecture created at SpaceLab/UFSC.

FloripaSat-2A is a 1U CubeSat, and FloripaSat-2B is a 2U CubeSat. Both satellites include their own power-management, onboard processing, and communication subsystems, operating in commercial frequency bands.

The mission will also demonstrate a low-power LoRa inter-satellite communication link between the two spacecraft, an important capability for SpaceLab’s future distributed missions, such as the Catarina Constellation.

Both satellites will be launched from the Alcântara Space Center (CLA) during the Spaceward 2025 mission, aboard the HANBIT-TLV commercial launch vehicle developed by INNOSPACE. They will be placed into a 300 km low Earth orbit, where their subsystems and communication experiments will be validated in space.

communication info

Downlink

Band: UHF
Frequency:
468.200 MHz
Polarization: Linear
Modulation: GMSK 
Data Rate: 1200 bps
Link Layer Protocol:
NGHam

decoding

The downlink packets can be decoded using our decoding software: Spacelab-Decoder

Tracking

TLE: Not available yet.

contacts

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