GAUSS is taking part in the “System-level mission” in Brazil as a representative of the Italian space technology field and a contributor to the aerospace cooperation between Italy and Brazil. The mission is taking place on 23, 24 and 25 November 2016 in São José dos Campos (São Paulo, Brasil), at Parque Tecnologico and INPE Headquarters. The initiative […]
Update: The TuPOD will be released in January 2017 (exact date yet to be set). The TuPOD, the satellite/deployer containing the first TubeSats ever to be released into space, continues its path as it has been handed over to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). On November 7th 2016 the TuPOD has been integrated in the CubeSat launcher J-SSOD (JEM Small Satellite […]
GAUSS is participating in the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2016), held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 26 to 30 September 2016, being also present at a number of pre-congress related events starting on 22 September. This key event of the aerospace sector is organized by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM), the Secretarìa de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT), the […]
This 1st of September, when the eclipse occurred, UniSat6 was able to take a picture of the eclipse over Africa at 07:58:14 UTC. As the Moon passed between the Earth and the Sun, the satellite photographed the event from its LEO orbit at an altitude of 686.5 km with its onboard camera. Not only GAUSS […]
Once again GAUSS has designed an innovative system, this time to deploy the first TubeSats into orbit. The TuPOD is a 3U CubeSat and has the capability to board and release two TubeSats. It will be launched soon by the Italian company. The satellite/deployer has been designed by GAUSS Srl in cooperation with the US company Tetonsys, […]
UniSat-6 is turning two! Two years have passed since the successful launch of the sixth satellite of the UniSat series, on the 19th of June 2014, from Yasny site onboard a Dnepr-1 rocket. Its mission accomplished, UniSat-6 is still giving its builders solid hints on how a small-sized satellite should work and showing the satellites community what can […]
