HawkSat-1

HawkSat-1 was a single-unit CubeSat which was built and is being operated by the Hawk Institute for Space Sciences (HISS), Pocomoke City, Maryland.It is based on a Pumpkin Inc. CubeSat kit, and carries a technology demonstration payload, primarily as a proof of concept mission, testing command, data and power subsystems, as well as solar panels and communications.The data was to be sent to Earth by means of a storage and dump communication system.It was successfully launched on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur I launch vehicle from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, at 23:55 UTC on 19 May 2009.The satellite was successfully deployed in orbit, but no signals were received.
Technology demonstrationCOSPAR IDSATCAT no.CubeSatSolar cellsbatteriesMinotaur IOrbital Sciences CorporationGeocentric orbitLow Earth orbitPerigee altitudeApogee altitudeInclinationPeriodPocomoke City, Marylandproof of conceptsolar panelscommunicationslaunch vehiclePad 0BMid-Atlantic Regional SpaceportTacSat-3PharmaSatAeroCube-3reenteredatmosphere of EarthList of CubeSatspublic domain← 2008Orbital launches in 20092010 →USA-202Orion 6Sohla-1Koronas-FotonNOAA-19Progress M-66Ekspress-AM44Ekspress-MD1Hot Bird 10Spirale-ASpirale-BTelstar 11NKeplerSTS-119ITS S6USA-203Soyuz TMA-14USA-204Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2RISAT-2ANUSATSICRAL 1BUSA-205Progress M-02MSTS-125HerschelPlanckProtoStar 2Meridian 2Soyuz TMA-15LCROSSMEASAT-3aGOES 14Sirius FM-5TerreStar-1Kosmos 2451Kosmos 2452RazakSATSTS-127JEM-EFProgress M-67DubaiSat-1Deimos-1UK-DMC 2Nanosat-1BAprizeSat-3AprizeSat-4AsiaSat 5USA-206JCSAT-RAOptus D3STSat-2ASTS-128Leonardo MPLMPalapa-DUSA-207 / PANMeteor-M No.1Sterkh-2SumbandilaSatUGATUSATUniversitetsky-Tatyana-2Nimiq 5Oceansat-2Rubin 9.1Rubin 9.2BeeSat-1ITU-pSat1SwissCube-1USA-208STSS-Demo 1USA-209STSS-Demo 2Soyuz TMA-16WorldView-2Progress M-03MThor 6PROBA-2Progress M-MIM2Shijian 11-01STS-129ExPRESS-1ExPRESS-2Intelsat 14Eutelsat W7Intelsat 15USA-211Kosmos 2456Kosmos 2457Kosmos 2458Helios IIBSoyuz TMA-17DirecTV-12