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
There is a downlink available on FloripaSat-2A, with the configuration described below. A periodic beacon is transmitted every minute and contains basic satellite telemetry.
Downlink (FloripaSat-2A):
Band: UHF
Frequency: 468.2 MHz
Polarization: Linear
Modulation: GMSK
Data Rate: 1200 bps
Link Layer Protocol: NGHam
For FloripaSat-2B, there is no publicly available link. Its payload data are transmitted to FloripaSat-2A through a low-power LoRa link between the two satellites. Some telemetry data can be visualized in the FloripaSat-2A beacon packet.
decoding
The downlink packets can be decoded using our decoding software: Spacelab-Decoder
Tracking
TLE: Not available yet.
