Teams selected for the May 2024 test window of Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities
VIBES PIONEER university team has been selected for the May 2024 test window of the Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme following a call for proposals opened in December 2024. 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 January 2024. 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 May 2024 test window of Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities!
VIBES Pioneer, City University of Applied Sciences Bremen – Germany
The research program VIBES: The Digital Satellite aims at making modern technologies that enable efficient and powerful products such as smartphones applicable for spaceflight products to improve the performance of satellites Currently, the VIBES team is working on their first spacecraft, a 3U CubeSat called VIBES Pioneer. Its goal is to improve the optical performance of spacecraft using the latest digital Technologies. The primary mission objective of the VIBES Pioneer mission is the measurement of mechanical perturbations in orbit. The secondary mission objectives consist of testing different operation modes for the attitude determination and control system and the software-defined radio. Besides the technology-focused primary and secondary mission objectives, the mission shall additionally help establish a knowledge base for how to develop, build, test, verify, launch and operate a spacecraft.
Stay tuned for the next test opportunities! More information about the Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme can be found here.