Official name BRITE-A TUGSAT-1
Alternative name TUGSAT-1
Cospar ID 2013-009F
Norad ID 39091
Launch date 2013-02-25
Launch site SRI
Launch vehicle PSLV-CA
Country/Organization Austria, Canada
Type application Astronomy / Technology
Operator Graz University of Technology
RCS size MEDIUM
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 100.26
Inclination (deg) 98.39
Perigee (km) 764
Apogee (km) 777
Eccentricity 0.00843608046722907
Mean motion (revs. per day) 14.3626570915619
Semi-Major axis (km) 7148.635
Raan (deg) 330.1139
Arg of perigee (deg) 322.7021
Shape Box
Mass (kg) 14
Height (m) 0.2
Width (m) 0.2
Depth (m) 0.2
Span (m^2) 0.2
Contractors Graz University of Technology; UTIAS (bus)
Propulsion None
Configuration Gryphon Bus (GNB)
Power Solar cells, batteries

TUGSat 1 (Technische Universität Graz Satellit), also known as BRITE-Austria (BRIght-star Target Explorer - Austria), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations will have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground-based observations, and it will be packaged inside a CanX-class nanosatellite.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
BRITE-A TUGSAT-1 2013-009F 2013-02-25 SRI PSLV-CA with SARAL, Sapphire, NEOSSAT, UniBRITE, STRaND 1, AAUSAT 3