| CAPE-2 | |
| Mission Type: | Technology |
| Operator: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Cospar Id: | 2013-064C |
| Satcat: | 39382 |
| Spacecraft Type: | 1U CubeSat |
| Manufacturer: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Dimensions: | 10x |
| Launch Mass: | 1kg (02lb) |
| Launch Date: | UTC[1] |
| Launch Site: | Wallops LA-0B[2] |
| Launch Contractor: | Northrop Grumman |
| Orbit Epoch: | 20 November 2013 |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
| Orbit Periapsis: | 498km (309miles) |
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 500km (300miles) |
| Orbit Inclination: | 40.51° |
| Orbit Period: | 93.4 minutes |
| Apsis: | gee |
CAPE-2 (Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment 2), or Louisiana-OSCAR 75, was an American amateur miniaturized satellite developed by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.[3]
The purpose of CAPE 2 is to gather data while orbiting in space and transmit this data to the ground station on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus. The team of engineering students runs experiments and maintain the satellite while in orbit.[4]
As part of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) educational launch of nanosatellites program, CAPE-2 was launched with the following payloads: a Voice Repeater, Text to Speech, Tweeting, Digipeater, File Storage and Transfers, and DTMF Query.
On October 23, 2014, the CAPE-2 satellite re-entered the atmosphere.[5]