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EDUCATION CUBESATS
ON SOYUZ VS14
Info sheet
Learning goals
By participating in a real satellite programme, the students gain significant practical experience in the full
lifecycle of an actual space project, from designing, to manufacturing, assembling, integrating, testing,
preparing the project documentation, learning the logic of conduct of formal reviews, participating in a launch
campaign, operating their own small satellite, and preparing for its disposal in compliance with the space debris
mitigation requirements.
Under close ESA supervision, students are introduced to the working methods adopted in professional space
programmes, fundamental to facilitating a transfer of competences, and to allow the students to build their
professional skills.
Build Your Satellite! satellite integration and functional tests in laboratory conditions;
Test Your Satellite! environmental tests, conducted in conditions representative of the space mission;
Ticket to Orbit! launch campaign preparation, installation in the CubeSat orbital deployer (P-POD) and
installation of deployer and CubeSats on board the launcher;
For each individual university CubeSat: typically between 25 000 and 500 000 Euros, through national
institutional, academic and sponsorship funding.
For ESA: ESAs financial contribution covered the procurement of the launch as auxiliary payload, CubeSats
access to test facilities, cost of the ESA supervising personnel, including experts mentorship and conduct
of the ESA project reviews, as well as sponsorships to support students to travel to participate in the key
events of the programme.
OUFTI-1
Mass at launch:
920g
Dimensions:
Power:
2W
Mission:
Launch date:
22 April 2016
Operational orbit:
Mission lifetime:
Design: 1 year
Ground stations:
Payload:
D-STAR
e-st@r-II
Mass at launch:
980g
Dimensions:
Power:
2.75 W
Mission:
Launch date:
22 April 2016
Operational orbit:
Mission lifetime:
Minimum: 3 months
Ground stations:
Payload:
A-ADCS
AAUSAT-4
Mass at launch:
850g
Dimensions:
Power:
1.5 W
Mission:
Launch date:
22 April 2016
Operational orbit:
Mission lifetime:
Design: 1 year
Ground stations:
Payload:
AIS
2008-2012: 12 student-built CubeSats supported, out of which 7 launched on the Vega Maiden Flight.
2013: start of the Fly Your Satellite! Programme, with 6 CubeSats selected to participate in Phase 1 of the
Programme; three of these CubeSats OUFTI-1, e-st@r-II, AAUSAT-4 are to be launched on Soyuz VS14 on
22 April 2016.
2015: launch of AAUSAT-5 to the International Space Station, and deployment to orbit, under a dedicated
edition of the Fly Your Satellite! Programme.
Hands-on Space Projects, an existing set of programmes that enables students to gain first-hand experience
of real space-related projects. They include satellite projects, such as Fly Your Satellite! and ESEO (European
Student Earth Orbiter), as well as a number of other opportunities for student experiments projects to be
conducted on a wide variety of platforms, such as sounding rockets, stratospheric balloons, a drop tower, a
hypergravity centrifuge, and parabolic flights.
Training and Learning Programme, a new initiative offering an entirely new and varied portfolio of courses
given by space experts and professionals coming from all fields of ESAs expertise, as well as from space
industry and academia.
In addition to providing access to existing ESA establishments and partners infrastructures, the ESA Academy
makes use of new dedicated facilities located at ESAs Redu Centre in Belgium. The Training and Learning Centre,
which started courses in March 2016, and the CubeSat Education Centre will become operational in 2017.
OUFTI-1
www.oufti-1.be
oufti1cubesat
@UniversiteLiege, #Oufti1Go
Xavier Werner, x.werner@ulg.ac.be
e-st@r-II
www.polito.it/cubesat-team
CubeSat Team
@CubeSatTeam
Sabrina Corpino, sabrina.corpino@polito.it
AAUSAT-4
space.aau.dk/aausat4
aaustudentspace
@aauteknat
Jens Dalsgaard Nielsen, jdn@es.aau.dk
www.esa.int/education
esa education
@esa__education
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