Teams selected for the November 2023 test window of Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities
Orbit NTNU university team has been selected for the November 2023 test window of the Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme following a call for proposals opened in June 2023. The proposal evaluation and selection were carried out by Fly Your Satellite! Team and CubeSat Support Facility (CSF) operators. Teams are thrilled to start learning about environmental testing and eventually testing their devices at ESA facilities!
ESA invited university student teams ESA Member States, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia who would like to receive support and training in conducting an environmental test campaign, with mainly educational objectives to propose their test plan and device for the “Fly Your Satellite!” (FYS) test opportunities programme.
Following the selection process, the team was invited to present their test proposal the Fly Your Satellite! Team at the programme kick-off meeting held in August 2023. During the same event, the students were offered a webinar on environmental testing offered by CSF operators.
The selected team did an outstanding job in presenting their test proposal and responding to the questions raised by the Fly Your Satellite! team. We are happy to announce hereby the selected team for the November test window of Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities!
ORBIT NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology– Norway
FramSat-1.5 will be Orbit NTNU's third satellite to be launched into space. The team’s organizational mission is to educate the space engineers of tomorrow, and FramSat-1.5 therefore serves an important part in teaching students space engineering, space-related technology development and the principles of spaceflight by learning with hands-on missions.
FramSat-1.5 is a collaboration between the voluntary student-driven organization Orbit NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Eidsvoll Electronics AS (EIDEL), Isar Aerospace, The Norwegian Space Agency, DLR, ESA and Andøya Space.
In addition to educating students, the project enables collaboration between students and space-related institutions and industry, while demonstrating new technology.
Stay tuned for the next test opportunities! More information about the Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme can be found here.