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.
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
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
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
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
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
Université Montpellier 2, France
Mission objectives
Testing and evaluation of radiation effects (low dose rate) on bipolar transistor electronic components
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