LitSat-1

LitSat-1 was one of the first two Lithuanian satellites (other one being Lituanica SAT-1). It was launched aboard the second Cygnus spacecraft along with 28 Flock-1 CubeSats aboard an Antares 120 carrier rocket flying from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island.^[1] The launch was scheduled to occur in December 2013, but later was rescheduled to 9 January 2014 and occurred then. The satellite was deployed from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks Cubesat Deployer on February 28, 2014.^[2][3] Three Lithuanian words will be broadcast from space "Lietuva myli laisvę" (Lithuania loves freedom). Launch of satellites Lituanica SAT-1 and LitSat-1 was broadcast live in Lithuania.

LitSat-1

Operator	LSA, LSSTI, KTU, VGTU
COSPAR ID	1998-067EP
SATCAT no.	39570
Mission duration	2 months 24 days deployed, 4 months 13 days in space (6 months planned)
Start of mission
Launch date	9 January 2014, 18:07 (2014-01-09UTC18:07Z) UTC
Rocket	Antares 120
Launch site	MARS LP-0A
Contractor	Orbital Sciences
Deployed from	ISS
End of mission
Last contact	21 May 2014 05:15:15 UTC
Decay date	22 May 2014
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth

On 6 March 2014 the satellite radio station of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) established a two-way connection with LitSat-1 for the first time.^[4]