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    What are Cubesats?

    Published on Sep 25, 2012

    A CubeSat is a small satellite in the shape of a 10 centimeter cube and weighs just 1 kilogram. That's about 4 inches and 2 pounds. The design has been simplified so almost anyone can build them and the instructions are available for free online. CubeSats can be combined to make larger satellites in case you need bigger payloads. Deployable solar panels and antennas make Cubesats even more versatile. The cost to build one? Typically less than $50,000.

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    AAUSAT5 CubeSat mission from the International Space Station

    Published on Sep 7, 2015

    ‘AAUSAT5 CubeSat mission from the International Space Station’ is the pilot project of the ‘Fly Your Satellite from the ISS!’ programme, an extension of the ESA Education ‘Fly Your Satellite!’ CubeSats programme. AAUSAT5 was built by a team of students from Aalborg University (Denmark), supervised by their professors, and was selected by the ESA Education Office and by the ESA Human Spaceflight and Operations (HSO) Directorate for an educational CubeSat flight opportunity created in conjunction with the mission to the ISS of the first ESA Danish astronaut, Andreas Mogensen. The support offered by the ESA Education Office included supervision from ESA specialists, access to test facilities, and sponsoring students’ travel for the key events of the testing campaign and for the satellite delivery to the USA.

    Credit: ESA/J. Makinen & Aalborg University

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    AAUSAT5 mission description

    Published on Sep 11, 2015

    Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen introduces the AAUSAT5 CubeSat, explaining who constructed it and what its mission objectives are. AAUSAT5, a CubeSat entirely built by a university team with ESA’s support, was launched to the International Space Station aboard the Japanese HTV-5 cargo vehicle 19 August 2015.

    AAUSAT5 will be deployed from the Space Station in October, marking the first ESA student CubeSat mission ever launched from space: the pilot project of ESA’s ‘Fly Your Satellite from the ISS!’ education programme.

    After deployment, AAUSAT5 will start its technical mission: test, in orbit, an improved version of its receiver for the Automatic Identification System. This system is designed to track and identify ships transiting away from coastal areas and in remote areas, potentially allowing safer use of new shipping lanes.

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    ESA Cubesats on International Space Station

    Published on Oct 1, 2015

    ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, the first astronaut from Denmark, explains the deployment of the student-built AAUSAT5 CubeSat - the first ESA student CubeSat mission launched from space and the pilot project of ESA’s ‘Fly Your Satellite from the ISS!’ education programme.

    AAUSAT5, a CubeSat entirely built by a university team with ESA’s support, was launched to the International Space Station aboard the Japanese HTV-5 cargo vehicle 19 August 2015. Andreas gives a brief tour of the Japanese cargo vehicle's storage space, where AAUSAT5 was housed during its flight to the Station. AAUSAT5 was taken to the Japanese Kibo Laboratory, put in a Nanoracks deployer, and placed into the airlock to be launched into space.

    AAUSAT5 will be deployed into orbit 5 October 2015. Aalborg University will host a special event in Aalborg, Denmark entitled "ESA CubeSats from the Space Station: a new path for education and technology" to celebrate the deployment.

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    ESA CubeSats deployed from the ISS

    Published on Oct 8, 2015

    On 5 October at 15:55 CEST two ESA CubeSats, the student-built AAUSAT5 and the professional technology demonstrator GomX-3, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). The two satellites have just started their mission in space.

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    Crazy Engineering: CubeSats

    Published on Dec 3, 2015

    Honey, I shrunk the satellites! Mini-satellites are following in the footsteps of cell phones and computers. CubeSats are small but highly capable of performing a variety of space missions. For more about our CubeSats, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat

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    Cubesats : Miniaturised technology in space

    Published on Apr 5, 2016

    Whenever someone says 'satellite' people often think of huge and heavy telecommunication satellites with massive solar panels. But with the cost and size of consumer electronics decreasing exponentially; the same is happening for certain satellite technologies. Today nano-technology allows us to develop and build compact satellites the size of a shoebox: so called ‘cubesats’. These satellites open a world of opportunities not only for space agencies such as ESA but also for universities, their researchers and students. The small size of these satellites reduces not only their production costs but also their launch costs. And so it seems the future favours the small…

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    BHUTAN-1, MAYA-1 and UiTMSAT-1 deployment from KIBO

    Published on Aug 14, 2018

    Three CubeSats were deployed from the International Space Station “KIBO” Japanese Experiment Module on 10 August 2018. BHUTAN-1(Kingdom of Bhutan),MAYA-1(Republic of the Philippines) and UiTMSAT-1(Malaysia) are part of the 2nd BIRDS Project by Kyushu Institute of Technology.

    Credit: JAXA/ESA/NASA-A. Gerst

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