Photo Gallery of UniSat-6 integration Photo Gallery of UniSat-6 from orbit Videos of UniSat-6 from orbit Amateur Radio information to receive UniSat-6 Characteristics UniSat-6 is a civilian scientific satellite, mainly intended for customer’s equipment testing in space conditions. The satellite has a total mass of 26 Kg and it has been built in Italy. UniSat-6 […]
UNISAT-6 has travelled over 73 million kilometers since its launch, completing over 1656 orbits. During this period the satellite has transmitted more than 16 megabytes of recorded telemetry and 518 pictures. Even if these numbers might not be very spectacular in today’s standards, it is a great achievement for a satellite communicating in UHF with a bandwidth […]
Today 19th of July 2014, thirty days after the launch, Gauss team wants to celebrate the first month of full operations of UniSat-6 with all the supporters and HAM radios that are following news and/or that are sending us telemetry data from each corner of the world. In the first month of flight, on UniSat-6 everything is […]
During the first days in orbit, the ground team has been very busy downloading telemetry data in order to learn as much as possible of the satellite while it is still in good health. Downloading data has proven a big challenge because there are only two useful windows per day to communicate with it and […]
Unisat-6 (G.A.U.S.S. Srl) released in orbit four CubeSats, 25 hours and 38 minutes after the separation from the Dnepr Launch Vehicle. This timing was required in order to comply with the specifications of the launcher and to make the release just a few minutes before being visible from Rome. 2U ANTELSAT CubeSat. […]
Last night Unisat-6 was launched from Dombarovsky Cosmodrome at Yasny, Russia, on board a Dnepr rocket from ISC Kosmotras in the Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014. The spacecraft was inserted into a near SSO orbit with an altitude of 620Km at 19:27:08, just 7 seconds before the scheduled time. The satellite was contacted 83 minutes […]
