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) 100.29
Inclination (deg) 98.39
Perigee (km) 765
Apogee (km) 780
Eccentricity 0.00970873786407767
Mean motion (revs. per day) 14.3583607538139
Semi-Major axis (km) 7150.635
Raan (deg) 318.1787
Arg of perigee (deg) 24.5896
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