GAUSS is joining the Workshop about Technological and Opportunity Missions for Small Satellites and Earth Observation Payloads – “Missioni tecnologiche e di opportunità per piccoli satelliti e payload di Osservazione della Terra” – held on 2-3 July 2018 in Rome, at ASI premises. The event is organized by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), thanks to the Units of […]
Now GAUSS Observatory of Castelgrande has an MPC code! The MPC is the 3-digit unique identifier designated by the Minor Planet Center to the astronomical observatories, in order to list them in a worldwide register and ease the report of their astrometric observation. The site code of ISON-Castelgrande Observatory is L28 and its geographical coordinates are 15.46339 […]
We are glad to announce that the PocketQube Standard has been issued by GAUSS Srl, Alba Orbital and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The document containing the standards has been outlined in order to provide the PocketQubes community with common specifications and ease their access to space. The PocketQubes are cube shaped picosatellites of […]
GAUSS is participating in the Workshop on Ground Services for Macroconstellations (Servizi Ground per Macrocostellazioni) organized by Telespazio on June 25-26 2018, in Rome, together with a number of Space companies and Universities. During the Session about “Microsatellites and macroconstellations: from components to deployment”, GAUSS is giving a Presentation titled “From concept to launch: GAUSS approach to the small-satellite […]
Together with the recent fourth anniversary of the satellite UniSat-6, GAUSS OBC ABACUS reached a flight heritage of four years flying on two small satellites, namely UniSat-6 and Tigrisat. Infact, since June 2014, the brain of the satellite, the on board computer specifically developed for microsatellites, has successfully spent several years in orbit, being continuously up and running. In […]
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 […]
