Lima, November 6 2010.
UAPSAT , are the abbreviations of the first satellite of the Universidad Alas Peruanas , a nano-satellite will be controlled amateur band (UHF-VHF), and whose interior design more programming is done exclusively by students, supervised by professors of this particular university headquartered in Lima, and 28 branches throughout the country.
Our Mission and Vision: Give students the unique opportunity to train and apply a sum advanced knowledge in Electronics and Systems essential to prepare and control a vehicle in space, an experience that will be a legacy of this house of studies for the whole country , being both a challenge inspire and excite students working alongside their teachers in this company.
As result, there are a number of theses of our students who will relate on various aspects, ranging from the purely technical and scientific management to the business and legal implications of this types of missions that keep highly complex organization.
The project aims to contribute to the development of Science and Technology in Peru, while a strong boost, thanks to the professionals that we are, entering our country to the Space Age.
About Project
The UAPSAT cubic shaped and measures 10x10x10cm per side (excluding antennas), weighs about 1kg. Carries fixed solar cells on each side to feed its batteries whose energy is necessary at every step by the shadow of the Earth minicomputer flight, radio transmitters and receivers, a power control system; magnets stabilize the satellite to align with Earth's magnetic field. Be controlled through a dedicated ground station, including the Banda-S, for future projects and being installed in the laboratories of the PMU.
Its orbit is near circular and LEO at an altitude of 700 kilometers, passing over the poles of the Earth. His speed will allow you to complete one orbit every 90 minutes. The UAPSAT, will be devoted to scientific and educational purposes, an effort that has involved acquiring infrastructure and modern laboratories through a meticulous process of technology transfer, which will allow a development that few universities in the world have reached completion. To date we have developed a 100% first prototype developed by us, until the final flight model.
General Objectives
UAPSAT success is not measured only by the payload and the goal of placing it in space. Our objectives are:
- Show that a group of student volunteers can participate in the electronic design and systems architecture of a satellite, which can later be replicated in larger. Show
- that Peru is able to enter the aerospace career.
- provide its students with the highest performance in engineering and project management experience.
- Contribute an extension to the global digital radio amateurs.
What could make the UAPSATt?
Once in orbit will be controlled by our earth station can be contacted by radio amateurs, which means that the information collected and data files can be downloaded by any amateur radio operator in the world, on which the satellite passes. These same data could be recovered by other operators, either in real time, if the sender and receiver have direct contact with the satellite, or some other time, when the satellite is in a different position in its orbit around of the Earth.
students PMU will be the main operators of the satellite while in orbit, continuing the educational approach throughout the life cycle of the satellite.
(*) are delighted to publish this kind of news in which demonstrates the growing interest of academic institutions and the Peruvian state itself progressively develop an aerospace industry in our country. A well-known academic mini project Chasqui-1 satellite of the National Engineering University, now joins the UAPSAT Alas Peruanas University, this addition to the notice of the impending purchase by the Peruvian government of a satellite earth observation high resolution, and initial discussions have been initiated for a future communications satellite .... Dear Friends, we have many reasons to be proud of our country, we are moving!
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