Official name TUBIN
Alternative name TUBIN
Cospar ID 2021-059X
Norad ID 48900
Launch date 2021-06-30
Launch site AFETR
Launch vehicle Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5)
Country/Organization Germany
Type application Technology
Operator TU Berlin
RCS size MEDIUM
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 94.2
Inclination (deg) 97.64
Perigee (km) 475
Apogee (km) 485
Eccentricity 0.0104166666666667
Mean motion (revs. per day) 15.2866242038217
Semi-Major axis (km) 6858.135
Raan (deg) 275.0914
Arg of perigee (deg) 210.2942
Shape Oct Cyl
Mass (kg) 17
Diameter (m) 0.5
Height (m) 0.3
Span (m^2) 0.5
Lifetime 1 year
Contractors TU Berlin
Propulsion None
Configuration TUBiX20 bus
Power Solar cells, batteries

TUBIN (TU Berlin Infrared Nanosatellite) is a nanosatellite project of the Technical University of Berlin to observe the earth in infrared.

The mission is to test an thermal infrared (TIR) earth observation payload using a micro-bolometer array on a TUBiX20 nanosatellite bus of TechnoSat heritage.

Since power and size limitations prove prohibitive to accommodating cooled HgCdTe infrared detectors on a nanosatellite, TUBIN will carry two uncooled microbolometer imagers. The cameras are used for determination of sea surface temperature and land surfaces brightness temperature. In addition, a third imager with sensitivity in the visible spectrum will complement the infrared payload. The ground resolution of the thermal images will be 170 m and the sensitivity 1.5 K. Due to the much smaller pixel size, the images of the visible spectrum camera will have a ground resolution of 40 m.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
TUBIN 2021-059X 2021-06-30 AFETR Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) with Starlink v1.5 R1-1, ..., R1-3, Umbra-SAR 2001, YAM 2, YAM 3, ÑuSat 19, ..., 22, ICEYE X11, X12, X13, X15, Mandrake 2A, 2B, Capella 5, GNOMES 2, LINCS 1, 2, PACE 1, TROPICS 01, D2/AtlaCom 1, EG 3, Centauri 4, Lemur-2 140, ..., 145, SpaceBEE 88, ..., 111, SpaceBEENZ 7, ..., 10, Sherpa-FX 2, Lynk 06, Hawk 3A, 3B, 3C, Astrocast 0201, ..., 0205, Painani 2, Sherpa-LTE 1, Tenzing, Aurora, Arthur 1, Faraday Phoenix, KSF 1A, ..., 1D, Tiger 2, ION-SCV 003, NAPA 2, Spartan, Neptuno, W-Cube, Ghalib, QMR-KWT