A crowd-funded project with the mission to provide affordable space exploration for everyone. The first open platform allowing the general public to design and run their own space-based applications, games and experiments, and steer the onboard cameras to take pictures on-demand. ArduSat was equipped with 25 sensors on board, including a camera, magnetometer, spectrometer and Geiger counter. It also had a number of Arduino Microprocessors onboard, which allowed users to upload their own application, game or experiment and run it on the satellite. A virtual mission control center in the participants web browser controled Ardusat

Launch date: November 19, 2013
Satellite Catalog No: NORAD ID 39412
Int'l Designator: COSPAR 1998-067DA
Aplication: Experiments, Amateur Radio
Configuration: 1U
Tags: Space Nanosatellite CubeSat Arduino OpenSource