TigriSat is a CubeSat built in 2014 by a team of Iraqi students at the La Sapienza University of Rome as one of the four satellites deployed within UniSat-6.[1][2] It uses an RGB camera to detect dust storms over Iraq, and transmits the data to ground stations in Baghdad and Rome.[3] It is considered Iraq's first satellite.[4] It was launched from Orenburg on June 19, 2014 on a Dnepr launch vehicle.[1]
History
A 3D render showing the deployment phase of the CubeSats including TigriSat boarded inside UniSat-6 satellitel
In 1989, under Saddam Hussein's government, Iraq claimed to have launched a satellite.[4] However, footage showed that the launch vehicle exploded early in liftoff, and called into question whether the launch was an attempted orbital launch. Thus, this satellite is the first launched for Iraq. Its launch, at the time, was record-breaking for the greatest number of satellites launched on a single rocket.[5] In 2018, this satellite's signal was briefly mistaken for that of another CubeSat, PicSat.[6]
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
