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Shaonian Xing [Sat China]
Shaonian Xing ("Youth Star") is a 3U-CubeSat developed by teenagers as part of the Sat-China outreach project to engage youth in thinking about space, STEM education, and even satellite development.
The satellite carried also an experiment for the SpaceChain and Qtum blockchain projects - the first blockchain node in space. It consisted of a Raspberry Pi hardware development board that basically runs a full-node program on Qtum blockchain.
Shaonian Xing was launched together with Zhangheng 1 and several small satellites on a CZ-2D (2) booster in 2018.
| Nation: | China |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Education, technology |
| Operator: | Sat-China |
| Contractors: | Sat-China |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | CubeSat (3U) |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 3 kg |
| Orbit: | 483 km × 507 km, 97.33° |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaonian Xing (MXSat 1, Juvenile 1F) | 2018-015H | 02.02.2018 | Jq LC-43/94 | CZ-2D (2) | with Zhangheng 1, ŅuSat 4, ŅuSat 5, GOMX 4A, GOMX 4B, FengMaNiu 1 |
Launch Sites:
- Jq = Jiuquan Space Center, Inner Mongolia, China
References:
- gbtimes: China's first satellite developed by teenagers to launch in August, 25 April 2017
