COMPASS-1

COMPASS -1, also Compass One is developed Aachen from 2003 to 2008 a small satellite in the CubeSat format, the students of the FH. He weighs about one kilogram. His gallium arsenide solar panels provide an electrical output of two watts. The three-axis stabilization via solenoids. Life was calculated for six months. The payload consists of a GPS receiver and a CMOS camera. With a resolution of 640 × 480 pixels and an altitude of 630 km, the camera depicts a surface of the Earth of 416 × 380 km ². COMPASS - 1 was successfully fired on April 28, 2008 at 03:53 UTC as a piggy -back with an Indian PSLV rocket into a sun-synchronous orbit.

The amateur radio call sign for COMPASS -1 is DP0COM. The base station uses the call sign DL0FHA. As beacon downlink has a frequency of 437.275 MHz for the data and telemetry downlink 437.405 MHz is used.

The follow-up project COMPASS -2 has the COMPASS -1 supports up last.

Beginning of March 2012 has collapsed, the battery voltage of COMPASS -1.