Multipurpose and Enduring
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
LAPAN deserved to be proud when the Lapan-TUBSat, a satellite which they constructed collaboratively with Germany, entered its fourth year of operation last January 10. They only expected the satellite to stay in space for two years at first, but, as it turned out, it continues sending pictures until now.
The two years’ service period is measured from the operational age of the satellite’s rechargeable battery. A satellite is basically powe
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