Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
ITUpSAT1 short for Istanbul Technical University picoSatellite-1) is a single CubeSat built by the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Istanbul Technical University. It was launched on September 23 2009 atop a PSLV-C14 satellite launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh in India and became the first Turkish university satellite to orbit the Earth.