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Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency
On April 4, 2011 the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency, EXA, unveiled the first Ecuadorian satellite, the NEE-01 Pegasus. Pegasus is a 3U CubeSat with two deployable solar panels and EXA say 28.8 amps can be generated. There is an onboard camera to send live video from space and a beacon that will send an ID and Ecuador’s national anthem.
One of the satellites objectives is to serve as a space platform for elementary education. The satellite will send two signals that will be received and decoded by the EXA’s HERMES-A ground station in Guayaquil and then uploaded live to the Internet using Twitter and Facebook.
The first signal will contain text book questions and the second will contain an image related to the question. If the students are able to answer the question correctly they will be granted access to the video camera onboard the spacecraft and will be able to see earth from space as the astronauts see it in their space missions.
More advanced students will have access to the pure radio signal so they can try decoding it by themselves. The EXA will provide them with the appropriate support software free of charge.
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will be launched in 2012
Mission
Primary mission: National Technology testing
- Survive the LEO space environment and transmit telemetry for at least a year
- Transmit live video feed from orbit and On-Screen telemetry
- Test the Space Environment Attenuation Manifold NEMEA
- Test the passive release/deploy technology on multi phase nano solar arrays
- Test the high energy generation technology for small spacecrafts
- Test the ARGOS-MINOTAUR hyper amplification matrix
Secondary Mission: Space based education platform
- Serve as space based education platform for elementary levels
- Demonstrate the benefits of an education satellite
- Inspire the need for research and self education in the young population
- Transmit the Ecuador's national anthem from space
The satellite’s primary mission is to test the basic and key technologies that will allow the EXA to build bigger and more powerful spacecrafts in the future and the secondary mission is to serve as an space platform for elementary education: The satellite will send two signals that will be received and decoded by the EXA’s HERMES-A ground station in Guayaquil and then uploaded live to the Internet using Twitter and Facebook; the first signal will contain text book questions and the second will contain an image related to the question. If the students are able to answer the question correctly they will be granted access to the video camera on board the spacecraft and will be able to see earth from space as the astronauts see it in their space missions. More advanced students will have access to the pure radio signal so they can try decoding it by themselves.
Homepage und weitere Informationen
http://exa.ec/bp37/index-en.htmlhttp://pegaso.exa.ec/
http://minotaur.exa.ec/
