The launch of ESA´s new rocket, "Vega", is programmed for the nineth of february, and it's small load is already prepared for the integration.
We are obviously talking about the CubeSats, a project developed by the ESA, in collaboration with several universities from some of the ESA member states.
The ESA CubeSat competition started in 2007, when the space agency decided to include an educational project in the first flight of "Vega". The ESA set up a workshop in order to promote the CubeSat at a Europpen level.
"The level of interest was amazing, with more than 120 people attending the workshop. We were also surprised by the diversity of the projects that were put forward, demonstrating the high creativity of the CubeSats community.", said Roger Walker, the Head of Education Projects at the ESA Education Office.
The Vega is going to hold six CubeSats in it's inside. Here they are listed, with their countries of origin and their function:
-Xatcobeo (University of Vigo with the collaboration of INTA, Spain): a mission to demonstrate the functioning in orbit of a software radio and the deployment of solar panels
-Robust (University of Montpellier 2, France): a mission to measure and assess the radiation effects of low dose on bipolar transistors
-E-str. (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy): demonstration of an active system of determination and attitude Control in 3-axis, with an inertial reference platform
-Goliath (University of Bucharest, Romania): it fotografiará the Earth's surface with a digital camera and perform measurements in situ of the dose of radiation and micrometeoroids flow
-PW-Sat (Technical University of Warsaw, Poland): a mission to test a mechanism that will increase the aerodynamic drag and help taking down picosatellites.
-MaSat-1 (University of technology and economics of Budapest, Hungary): a mission to test various space avionics systems, including a system of power conditioning, a transceiver and a data processing system.
Via: ESA education
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