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 […]
UNISAT-6 transmits on the amateur radio frequencies. Any amateur radio is invited to receive the satellite telemetry and post it below this post or sending us binary files to <info@gaussteam.com> (Tell us if we can put your name on the credits in the website). We will periodically create graphs of the status of the satellite based […]
The Gauss team is now in the Yasny Launch Base, property of ISC Kosmotras, for the integration of the satellite UniSat-6. The integration works started on the 2nd of June and the satellite was successfully installed on the Dnepr-1 launcher platform on the 5th of June. Unisat-6 hosts 4 cubesats that will be deployed one day […]
The Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space Systems started today in Rome with more than 45 speakers. The event will continue for other two days. For more information visit the website.
