30 JAN. 2012
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Seven teams of university students were selected to fly their CubeSats on the maiden flight of ESA's Vega launch vehicle.
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e-st@r
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Demonstration of an active 3-axis attitude determination and control system including an inertial measurement unit.
With UniCubeSat-GG, first CubeSat ever launched by Italy.
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Flight model
University of Bucharest, Romania
Imaging of the Earth surface using a digital camera and in situ measurement of radiation dose and micrometeoroid flux.
First satellite ever launched by Romania.
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Flight model of Masat-1
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Demonstration of various spacecraft avionics, including a power conditioning system, transceiver and onboard data handling.
First satellite ever launched by Hungary.
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PW-Sat
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Testing of a deployable atmospheric drag augmentation device for de-orbiting CubeSats.
First satellite ever launched by Poland.
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Robusta
University of Montpellier 2, France
Testing and evaluation of radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic components.
First CubeSat ever launched by France.
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UniCubeSat-GG
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Study of the effects of orbital eccentricity on attitude motion enhanced by gravity gradient using a deployable boom equipped with solar cells.
With e-st@r, first CubeSat ever launched by Italy.
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Xatcobeo's final assembly
University of Vigo and INTA, Spain
Demonstration of software-defined radio and solar panel deployment.
First Spanish CubeSat.
The ESA Cubs, the first CubeSats to be sent into space by a European launcher, will be ejected from their different deployment systems mounted on the support structure of the main payload, LARES, into an orbit of 300 x 1450 km at an inclination of 69.5 degrees. They will have a natural orbital lifetime of up to 4 years, depending on their rate of orbital decay due to atmospheric drag.
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