Fly Your Satellite! 1 – Meet the teams
In June 2013, six teams were selected to participate in the Fly Your Satellite! programme. The satellites carry different payloads selected by the university teams, with a variety of mission objectives, as outlined below.
AAUSAT4
Aalborg University, Denmark
Mission objectives
Testing of an Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver and of student-developed ground station software
Technology demonstration of an active 3-axis attitude determination and control system
ConSat-1
Concordia University, Canada
Mission objectives
Testing in space of the ConSat-1 satellite bus and of a variety of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware components
Mapping of plasma parameters in Low Earth Orbit and in the South Atlantic Anomaly
e-st@r-II
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Mission objectives
Testing in space of students’ developed subsystems (incl. telecom subsystem and structure) and of a variety of COTS hardware components
Technology demonstration of attitude determination system
OUFTI-1
Université de Liège, Belgium
Mission objectives
Testing, for the first time in space, the D-STAR amateur radio protocol
Testing in space of students’ developed subsystems (including on-board computer (OBC))and of a variety of COTS hardware components.Testing of high-efficiency solar cells
POLITECH.1
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Mission objectives
Testing an Earth Observation payload for geodesy applications
Testing of a high data rate C-band communication link
ROBUSTA-1B
Université Montpellier 2, France
Mission objectives
Testing and evaluation of radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic components
