The Dove-2 mission is an internal company technology demonstration experiment to test the capabilities of a low-cost spacecraft constrained to the 3U CubeSat form factor to host a small payload.[5]
The Dove-2 satellite was launched at 10:00 UTC April 19, 2013 aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
References
^Krebs, Gunter. "Dove 2". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
^McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
^Peat, Chris (29 October 2013). "DOVE 2 - Orbit". Heavens Above. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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