CAPE-3

CAPE-3 is no longer on orbit
CAPE-3 is classified as:

Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 47309

Int'l Code: 2021-002A

Launch date: January 17, 2021
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: Pegasus launched from Western Range Air Space (WRAS)
Decay date: 2024-02-21

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 145.825/437.325*
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: 1k2*AFSK 9k6 FSK
Call sign: W5UL-11
Status: Reentered

CAPE-3 is the third cube satellite in the CAPE series, student-built by the University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette. The primary educational mission is to allow grade-school classrooms to access the Smartphone CubeSat Classroom, and run interactive experiments through an experimental smartphone ground-station grid. The secondary mission is to perform scientific experiments involving radiation detection and take pictures of Earth. CAPE-3 includes a digipeater and experimental UHF adaptive radio. An AX-25 telemetry downlink has been coordinated on 145.825 MHz and a 1k2 frequency-shift keying (FSK) downlink has been coordinated on 435.325 MHz, which may burst to 100 kHz bandwidth.