Centauri 2 [Fleet Space]
Official name CENTAURI-1
Alternative name Centauri 1
Cospar ID 2018-099BD
Norad ID 43809
Launch date 2018-12-03
Launch site AFWTR
Launch vehicle Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)
Country/Organization Australia
Type application Communication M2M/IoT
Operator Fleet Space Technologies
RCS size SMALL
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 95.8
Inclination (deg) 97.53
Perigee (km) 543
Apogee (km) 571
Eccentricity 0.0251346499102334
Mean motion (revs. per day) 15.0313152400835
Semi-Major axis (km) 6935.135
Raan (deg) 189.1939
Arg of perigee (deg) 91.9939
Shape Box + 2 Pan
Mass (kg) 5
Height (m) 0.3
Width (m) 0.1
Depth (m) 0.1
Span (m^2) 0.3
Contractors Fleet Space Technologies; Pumpkin (bus)
Propulsion ?
Configuration CubeSat (3U)
Power 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries

Centauri 1 and 2 are pathfinder satellites for Fleet Space Technologies' planned network for global satellite connectivity to the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

The Centauri satellites are built to the 3U CubeSat form factor.

Two initial satellites were launched in 2018 as secondary payloads. Centauri 2 was launched on an Indian PSLV rocket, while Centauri 1 flew on a SpaceX Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5).

The next generation satellites, beginning with Centauri 3, are larger 6U CubeSats.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
CENTAURI 2 2018-096D 2018-11-29 SRI PSLV-CA with HySIS, BlackSky 1, Flock-3r 1, ..., 16, Lemur-2 84, ..., 87, CICERO 8, Hiber 1, HSAT 1, CASE, FACSAT 1, InnoSat 2, Reaktor Hello World, 3Cat 1
CENTAURI-1 2018-099BD 2018-12-03 AFWTR Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) with SkySat 14, 15, Eu:CROPIS, STPSat 5, FalconSat 6, NEXTSat 1, KazSTSAT, eXCITe, SeeMe, ICEYE X2, BlackSky 2, ESEO, Hawk A, B, C, Capella 1, AISTECHSAT 2, CSIM-FD, Hiber 2, ITASAT 1, Landmapper-BC 4, ORS 7A, 7B, Al-Farabi 2, Astrocast 0.1, Audacy 0, BRIO, Eaglet 1, Enoch, Flock-3s 1, 2, 3, K2SAT, KazSciSat 1, MinXSS 2, Orbital Reflector, RAAF M1, SeaHawk 1, SNUSAT 2, THEA, VESTA, PW-Sat 2, SNUGLITE, VisionCube, RANGE A, B, Elysium-Star 2, ExseedSat 1, Fox 1C, Irvine 02, JY1-Sat, KNACKSAT, MOVE 2, SpaceBEE 5, 6, 7, Suomi-100, WeissSat 1, Sirion Pathfinder 2, OrbWeaver 1, 2, SPAWAR-CAL O, OR, R