The C3S 3U CubeSat platform was successfully launched from the Guyana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday morning, a few minutes after a quarter past 3:15 a.m. Hungarian time, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reports. The cargo hold also accommodated the French optical imaging satellite Pléiades Neo-4 and the Hungarian-developed and manufactured RADCUBE satellite.
Following the successful launch, the first satellite created by a domestic industrial operator was placed in low Earth orbit. RADCUBE is expected to start its scientific work after a few weeks of testing, which will be complemented by the RadMag instrument and a telescopic magnetometer, which is about 80 centimeters long, spacejunkie.hu reports.
The satellite platform's current mission will carry scientific instruments developed by the ELKH Energy Research Center, Imperial College London, Astronika and the European Space Agency. The Space Agency has contracted for a six-month operation of the satellite, but the planned lifetime of the C3S-developed satellite exceeds this by several times.
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