TiungSAT-1

TiungSAT-1 is the first Malaysian microsatellite.{{cite book | url = http://directory.eoportal.org/get_announce.php?an_id=7701 | chapter-url = http://directory.eoportal.org/presentations/887/7470.html | title = Observation of the Earth and Its Environment: Survey of Missions and Sensors | chapter = TiungSat | author = Herbert Kramer | year = 2002 | isbn = 3-540-42388-5 | publisher = Springer Verlag | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327024849/http://directory.eoportal.org/get_announce.php?an_id=7701 | archive-date = 2009-03-27 }} {{cite book | url = https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-7326-9 | chapter-url = https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-7326-9_3 | title = ASEAN Space Programs: History and Way Forward | chapter = Space Sector Development in Malaysia | author = Norilmi Amilia Ismail | year = 2022 | pages = 43–55 | isbn = 978-981-16-7325-2 | publisher = Springer Nature| doi = 10.1007/978-981-16-7326-9_3 | s2cid = 245925777 }} The satellite is developed through the technology transfer and training programme between Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd (ATSB) Malaysia and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., United Kingdom. TiungSAT-1 was launched aboard Dnepr rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 26 September 2000.{{cite news | url = http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=2696 | title = Third satellite launch this year for SSTL: TiungSAT-1 in orbit | publisher = Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd | date = 27 September 2000 }}

In May 2002, the amateur radio payload on the satellite was designated Malaysian OSCAR-46, or MO-46.

{{cite web

| url = ftp://ftp.amsat.org/pub/amsat/news/news/2002/ans069.txt

| title = AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 069.01 FROM AMSAT HQ

| date = 2002-03-10

| publisher = Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation

| access-date = 2016-12-11 }}

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