RAISE-2
11/9/2021
A ground station to operate NanoDragon after launch has been developed and installed at the VNSC facility in Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Hanoi.
NanoDragon will operate in sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 560 km above the Earth’s surface.
NanoDragon was transported from Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi to Narita Airport in Tokyo on 2021-08-11 before being transferred to the Uchinoura Space Centre launch site in Kagoshima Prefecture.
NanoDragon was developed by the Vietnam National Space Center and was one of the nine satellites on Epsilon 5.
NanoDragon is a cubesat that weighs 3.8 kg and was developed by the Vietnam National Space Center under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
NanoDragon's downlink frequency was 437.365 MHz with a baud rate of 1.2 kbps using BPSK modulation and Square Root Raised Cosine (SRRC) filtering with rolloff 0.5.