PVSAT (Performance Verification Satellite) is a vehicle evaluation payload that was utilized in the second flight of the Nuri missile (KSLV-2).
Name of Satellite | PVSAT (Performance Verification Satellite) |
Purpose | Technology Demonstration |
Contractor | Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) |
Country of Contractor | South Korea |
Launch Mass (kg.) | 163 |
Class of Orbit | LEO |
Perigee (km) | 695 |
Date of Launch | 21.06.2022 |
Launch Site | Naro Space Center |
Launch Vehicle | Nuri |
COSPAR Number | 2022-065A |
NORAD Number | 52894 |
PVSAT Technology Demonstration Satellite has five Cubesat satellites that are deployed. Four Cubesat satellite based on those developed by Korean universities will be carried along with the payload to test performance of newly developed space technologies. The space mission will spend the next two years in a sun-synchronous orbit, with an altitude of 600 to 800 kilometres. The fifth deployment module will showcase a mock-up of the cubesat.