[amsat-bb] Five CubeSats altitude

[Masahiro Arai]

I'm ploting altitude of five CubeSats which were deployed from ISS.
The results is interesting. First deployment satellites are lower
altitude than laters. I guess this is related to initial velocity at
deployment.

First Deployment
  deployment order: #1 WE WISH, #2 RAIKO
  altitude: WE WISH < RAIKO

Second Deployment
  deployment order: #1 TechEdSat,  #2 F1,  #3 FITSAT-1
  altitude: TechEdSat < F1 < FITSAT-1

I'm also ploating ARISSat-1 on the same chart as its time line align
to the five CubeSats deployment date. The chart shows five CubeSats
have large decay rate than ARISSat-1.


You can see the chart on the following URL.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/m-arai/gkz/5CubeSats_Altitude.png



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