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Built via the internet, student satellite coming to life at ESA-ESTEC

19 October 2004

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The SSETI Express satellite will test and characterise a propulsion system, return images of the Earth and serve as a transponder for amateur radio users.

Credits: ESA

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A student holds one of the smaller CubeSats

Like a Russian doll, SSETI Express will carry inside it three smaller 'cubesats' – 10-centimetre cube technology testers built respectively by universities in Germany, Japan and Norway – for deployment when in orbit. The main SSETI Express satellite itself will test and characterise a propulsion system, return images of the Earth and serve as a transponder for amateur radio users.

Credits: SSETI

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Artist's impression of the ESEO satellite imagined by SSETI students

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Solar panels of the gallium-arsenide type that will power SMART-1 enabled the Dutch-built solar-powered car 'Nuna' to win the World Solar Challenge race across Australia in 2001

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Students and ESA experts at the SSETI workshop that took place at ESTEC in December 2003

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