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ESTCube-2
 ESTCube-2 artist impression by Frost FX, ESTCube, Karl Vilhelm Valter | |
| Mission type | Educational Cubesat |
|---|---|
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | Estonian Student Satellite Foundation |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 9 October 2023 01:36 UTC[1] |
| Rocket | Vega (VV23) |
| Launch site | Guiana Space Centre ELV |
| Contractor | Arianespace |
| End of mission | |
| Destroyed | 9 October 2023 (re-entry due to failure to deploy) |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Altitude | 564 km |
ESTCube-2 was a three-unit (1 U standard dimension 100x100x113.5 mm[2]) CubeSat built by the Estonian Student Satellite Foundation.[3] ESTCube-2 launched from Kourou, French Guiana, with the European Space Agency's Vega launch vehicle on 9 October 2023 at 4:36 a.m. EEST.[4] The satellite likely failed to deploy and was likely destroyed when the upper stage of the launch vehicle reentered the atmosphere.[5]
ESTCube-2 was the second satellite in the ESTCube program (the first was ESTCube-1). The satellite was completed in the first half of 2022.[6] The development of the satellite started in January 2014, but the necessary team and funding were not obtained until 2016. ESTCube-2, like ESTCube-1, was an educational-scientific project that aimed to give university and high school students the opportunity to participate in the creation and completion of a space mission. Dozens of diploma theses were involved in the construction and development of the satellite.
The planned altitude of the ESTCube-2 orbit was 564 kilometers from the ground and the expected speed of the satellite in orbit was about 7.6 km/s.[7]
Partners are the University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory, Finnish Meteorological Institute, GomSpace, Milrem Robotics, Foresail, Dresden University of Technology, Captain Corrosion, European Space Agency, European Commission
- ^ "ESTCube-2's journey into space". Retrieved 9 October 2023.
- ^ "Technology CubeSats". esa.int. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ "About". ESTCube. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ "Estonia's ESTCube-2 satellite launched into orbit on Monday". ERR. 2023-10-09. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ "Estonian-developed ESTCube-2 satellite missing, feared destroyed". ERR News. 18 October 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "Uus stardiaken on selgunud". Uus stardiaken on selgunud (in Estonian). Retrieved 2023-05-30.
- ^ "ESTCube-2 blog". ESTCube. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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