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ZACube-1

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ZACube-1, also known as TshepisoSat, is a South African 1U CubeSat launched on 2013-11-21 on Dnepr from Dombarovsky/Yasny.^[1] The mission carries an HF beacon transmitter for ionosphere characterisation and auroral radar calibration, along with a low-resolution CMOS camera.^[1] It remains in low Earth orbit at about 535 x 592 km, supporting space-weather and ionospheric research rather than a conventional imaging production mission.^[2]^[1] Its platform was developed as a 1U CubeSat under a South African university satellite programme.^[3]^[1]

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current status	Operational
operator	Cape Peninsula University of Technology
platform	ZACube-1 1U CubeSat bus
launch vehicle	Dnepr
Launched	2013-11-21
orbit type	LEO; CelesTrak 535 x 592 km, 97.81 deg as of 2026-06-21
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	Space-weather and ionospheric research; SANAE-IV radar calibration support
claim status	Unclaimed

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built on platform ZACube-1 1U CubeSat bus

operated by Cape Peninsula University of Technology

launched on Dnepr

Sources

[1]ZACUBE 1 (TshepisoSat, ZA 003), Gunter Space Pagethird party2026-06-21
[2]CelesTrak SATCAT record for ZACube-1community2026-06-21
[3]Cape Peninsula University of Technologyoperator marketing2026-06-21

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ZACube-1. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/zacube-1 (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:zacube-1,
  title = {ZACube-1},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/zacube-1}
}