Vermont Lunar CubeSat

Vermont Lunar CubeSat
Spacecraft properties


Mission type	Technology
Operator	Vermont Technical College
COSPAR ID	2013-064AD
SATCAT №	39407

Manufacturer	Vermont Technical College
Launch mass	1 kilogram (2.2 lb)

Start of mission
Launch date	November 20, 2013, 01:15 (2013-11-20UTC01:15Z) UTC^[1]
Rocket	Minotaur I
Launch site	MARS LP-0B

End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21)

Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Inclined
Perigee	438 km (272 mi)
Apogee	450 km (280 mi)
Inclination	40.52 degrees
Period	93.47 minutes
Epoch	July 4, 2014, 20:59:35 UTC^[2]

The Vermont Lunar CubeSat is a CubeSat satellite by Vermont Technical College and funded in part by grants from NASA, Vermont Space Grant Consortium and in part by voluntary donations. The satellite, costing about 50,000 US Dollars to build - with NASA offering a free launch as part of the ELaNa program - served as a testing model for guidance and navigation pending future launches.^[3] The eventual goal of the project is to build a CubeSat capable of orbiting the Moon.^[4]

It was launched on November 19, 2013 from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a payload containing two NASA, 11 university, one high school and 14 Air Force CubeSats. Vermont Lunar is the only non NASA/Air Force CubeSat from this ELaNa IV launch that is fully working. Eight were never heard from at all. SPARK/Ada 2005 was used, and this is the first spacecraft of any kind programmed in SPARK.^[4] The control software contained about 10,000 lines of SPARK/Ada code. The Principal Investigator was Carl Brandon, the Software Supervisor was Peter Chapin, and Dan Turner served as the Principal Student Programmer. This was the first satellite of any kind built by a college or university in New England.

The North coast of Western Australia near Port Hedland taken by the Vermont Lunar CubeSat

References

↑ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
↑ "VERMONT LUNAR Satellite details 2013-064AD NORAD 39407". N2YO. July 4, 2014. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
↑ "Vermont Lunar CubeSat Project". Vermont Technical College. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
1 2 "Project Overview - CubeSat Laboratory". Vermont Technical College. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

← 2012 · Orbital launches in 2013 · 2014 →

January	Kosmos 2482 · Kosmos 2483 · Kosmos 2484 – JSE Reda 4 · Jissho Eisei – STSAT-2C – TDRS-11

February	Intelsat 27 – Globalstar M078, M087, M093, M094, M095, M096 – Azerspace-1/Africasat-1a · Amazonas 3 – Progress M-18M – Landsat 8 – SARAL · Sapphire · NEOSSat · UniBRITE-1 · TUGSAT-1 · AAUSAT3 · STRaND-1

March	SpaceX CRS-2 – USA-241 – Satmex 8 – Soyuz TMA-08M

April	Anik G1 – Bion-M No.1 (Aist 2 · BeeSat-2 · BeeSat-3 · SOMP · Dove-2 · OSSI-1) – Cygnus Mass Simulator · Dove 1 · Alexander · Graham · Bell – Progress M-19M – Gaofen 1 · TurkSat-3USat · NEE-01 Pegaso · CubeBug-1 – Kosmos 2485

May	Zhongxing 11 – Proba-V · VNREDSat 1A · ESTCube-1 – Eutelsat 3D – USA-242 – USA-243 – Soyuz TMA-09M

June	SES-6 – Albert Einstein ATV – Kosmos 2486 – Shenzhou 10 – Resurs-P No.1 – O3b PFM, FM2, FM4, FM5 – Kosmos 2487 – IRIS

July	IRNSS-1A – Uragan-M 48, 49, 50 – Shijian XI-05 – MUOS-2 – Shijian 15 · Shiyan 7 · Chuangxin 3 – Inmarsat-4A F4 · INSAT-3D – Progress M-20M

August	Kounotori 4 (TechEdSat-3 · ArduSat-1 · ArduSat-X · Pico-Dragon) – USA-244 – Arirang-5 – USA-245 – Eutelsat 25B / Es'hail 1 · GSAT-7 – Amos-4

September	Yaogan 17 A, B, C – LADEE – Gonets-M No.14 · Gonets-M No.16 · Gonets-M No.17 – Hisaki – USA-246 – Cygnus Orb-D1 – Fengyun III-03 – Kuaizhou-1 – Soyuz TMA-10M – CASSIOPE · CUSat · POPACS 1, 2, 3 · DANDE – Astra 2E

October	Shijian 16 – Sirius FM-6 – Yaogan 18

November	Mars Orbiter Mission – Soyuz TMA-11M – Globus-1M No.13L – MAVEN – ORS-3 · STPSat-3 · Black Knight 1 · CAPE-2 · ChargerSat-1 · COPPER · DragonSat-1 · Firefly · Ho'oponopono-2 · Horus · KySat-2 · NPS-SCAT · ORSES · ORS Tech 1, 2 · PhoneSat 2.4 · Prometheus × 8 · SENSE A, B · SwampSat · TJ³Sat · Trailblazer-1 · Vermont Lunar CubeSat – Yaogan 19 – DubaiSat-2 · STSAT-3 · SkySat-1 · UniSat-5 (Dove 4 · ICube-1 · HumSat-D · PUCP-Sat 1 (Pocket-PUCP) · BeakerSat-1 · $50SAT · QBScout-1 · WREN) · AprizeSat 7, 8 · Lem · WNISat-1 · GOMX-1 · CubeBug-2 · Delfi-n3Xt · Dove 3 · First-MOVE · FUNcube-1 · HINCube-1 · KHUSat-1 · KHUSat-2 · NEE-02 Krysaor · OPTOS · Triton 1 · UWE-3 · VELOX-P2 · ZACUBE-1 · BPA-3 – Swarm A, B, C – Shiyan Weixing 5 – Progress M-21M

December	Chang'e 3 (Yutu) – SES-8 – USA-247 · ALICE · AeroCube 5A, 5B · CUNYSAT-1 · FIREBIRD A, B · IPEX · M-Cubed-2 · SMDC-ONE 2.3, 2.4 · SNaP · TacSat-6 – Inmarsat-5 F1 – CBERS-3 – Gaia – Túpac Katari 1 – Kosmos 2488 · Kosmos 2489 · Kosmos 2490 – Ekspress AM5 – Aist 1 · SKRL-756 1, 2

Launches are separated by dashes ( – ), payloads by dots ( · ). Manned flights are bolded. Launch failures are in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in brackets).

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Vermont Lunar CubeSat

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