HUNGARY 1000 Forint 2012 MASAT KM840 BU

Country: HUNGARY
Denomination: 1000 Forint 
Year / Date of issue: 2012, 12. April

Type: Commemorative Coin - Collector series of inventions and technical innovations of Hungarian engineers and inventors.
Subject: Masat-1 (the name derives from MAgyar and SATellite), the first satellite built completely by Hungarians. This so-called "cube satellite" with a mass of roughly 1 kg and a length of 10 cm long was developed by the students of the Budapest Technical and Economics University, with the assistance of instructors and researchers. Some of the parts were manufactured by Hungarian companies. It was launched on 13 February 2012, at 11.00 Hungarian time and carried into space on a Vega rocket of the European Space Agency from the Kourou space centre in French Guyana. Since its successfull launch, the satellite works perfectly.

Grade : Brilliant Uncirculated (comes in airtite capsule)
Composition: Copper-Nickel
Weight: 14.00 g
Dimensions: 28.43 x 28.43 mm
Catalog no.: KM# 840
Reference: Standard catalog of World Coins (Krause-Mishler) 


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