This year’s Spring equinox will coincide with a great natural event: the Moon will cast its shadow on our planet when passing between the Sun and the Earth. On 20 March 2015 there will be a solar eclipse, total in some parts of the North of Europe, like the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian Svalbard, […]
Pictures taken by UniSat-6 in orbit. Click on the pictures to make zoom:
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 […]
