UniSat-6 has reached its sixth anniversary in orbit! UniSat-6 was launched on 19 June 2014 at 21:11:11 CET and it is still operating nominally. GAUSS engineers are still downloading valuable UniSat-6 telemetry data that has been thoroughly evaluated throughout the years, in order to design its latest successor, UniSat-7, which will soon be launched. All subsystems onboard constituting […]
UniSat-6 fulfilled GAUSS’ long endurance expectations and is turning 4 today! GAUSS latest small satellite sailed across the sky for a whole year more, being up and running and still completely operative, hence demonstrating its good health. UniSat-6 was launched on 19 June 2014 and ejected into orbit with its payload by the Dnepr LV, from […]
Since the foundation of Company GAUSS Srl in 2012, several small satellites have been designed, developed, assembled and launched: UNISAT-5: designed and built by GAUSS was launched on the Dnepr rocket, from Yasny base (Russian Federation) on November 21st, 2013, carrying aboard eight nano-satellites (four CubeSats and four PocketQubes). UNISAT-6: launched from Yasny base (Russian […]
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 […]
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 […]
One year has passed since the successful launch of UniSat-6 into space: UniSat-6 rocketed into orbit on 19th of June 2014 from the Yasny launch site onboard a Dnepr-1 rocket. Since then, the satellite is keeping on its adventure in space, while enduring its communication with the GAUSS ground station in Rome. UniSat-6 in figures To date, UniSat-6 […]
