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MTCUBE
A Robusta family nanosatellite that experiments with a fully digital radio frequency transmission board. MTCUBE was launched on July 5, 2019 aboard a Soyuz-2-1B from Vostochny. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Jun 12, 2025).
COSPAR 2019-038KNORAD 44395Ecuador
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Ecuador-UTE
- Common name
- MTCUBE
- International designator
- 2019-038K
- NORAD catalog number
- 44395
- GCAT identifier
- S44395
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- UTE
- Owner
- UTE
- Country
- Ecuador
- Builder
- Equinoctial University of Ecuador
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 3U
Launch
- Date
- July 5, 2019 · 05:41 UTC
- Launch record
- 2019-038Success
- Rocket
- Soyuz-2-1B
- Spaceport
- Vostochny · pad PU1S
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 501 km
- Apogee
- 563 km
- Inclination
- 97.50°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- June 12, 2025
- Last known active
- October 2022
- End of operations
- October 2022
Size
- Mass
- 4 kg
- Dry mass
- 4 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.3 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q65163852 (CC0).