31130 - CAPE-1

CAPE 1 is a CubeSat of sides 10 cm, and mass 1.0 kg, and was built by students at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (ULL). It was launched by a Dnepr rocket from Baikonur at 07:02 UT on 2007 April 17. It will collect and store data on the ambient ionosphere and relay it over the ULL.

The initial orbital parameters were period 99.2 min, apogee 793 km, perigee 646 km, and inclination 98.1 deg.

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 2007-04-17
Launch Vehicle: Dnepr
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Mass: 0.879 kg