e-st@r-II
Politecnico di Torino
Follow-on 1U CubeSat developed under ESA's Fly Your Satellite! program, flown on Arianespace Soyuz VS14.
Technical specifications
- Form factor
- 1U CubeSat, 10x10x11 cm
- Mass
- 1.0 kg
- Payload
- Active Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS), magnetic actuation
- Orbit
- Sun-synchronous LEO, perigee 449.4 km / apogee 693.7 km, inclination 98.2°, period 95.9 min
- COSPAR ID
- 2016-025D, SATCAT 41460
- Launch
- Arianespace Soyuz VS14, 25 April 2016, Kourou, French Guiana
- Mission end
- Decayed from orbit 9 May 2024
About
e-st@r-II is the follow-on to e-st@r-I, developed by more than 30 Politecnico di Torino students under the European Space Agency’s “Fly Your Satellite!” program. It completed its environmental test campaign at ESA-ESTEC in June 2015 and launched on 25 April 2016 (21:02 GMT) aboard an Arianespace Soyuz (VS14) mission from Kourou, French Guiana, as a secondary payload alongside Sentinel-1B and MICROSCOPE. The 1U CubeSat carried an Active Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) payload for autonomous magnetic-actuation attitude control, combining COTS and custom hardware in a sun-synchronous LEO orbit (perigee 449.4 km / apogee 693.7 km, inclination 98.2°). The mission experienced RF hardware assembly issues after deployment that weakened its downlink signal strength. e-st@r-II decayed from orbit on 9 May 2024.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
