GAUSS is participating in the 2018 edition of the International Workshop on Lean Satellite at the Kitakyushu International Conference Centre, in Japan, organized by Kyushu Institute of Technology with the support of the City of Kitakyushu on January 22-24, 2018. The main purpose of this three-day workshop is to further promote lean satellites research, giving the opportunity to discuss various […]
GAUSS is taking part in the Newspace Europe Conference,“New Frontiers of Opportunity”, dedicated to the New Space industry and the economic opportunities related to Space. The event is hosted by The Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City, on November 15-16, 2017 and it is presented by the SpaceResources.lu Initiative the Space Frontier […]
The TuPOD, released by the ISS astronauts on January 16, 2017 at 10:50 GMT, has been navigating on its own orbit since then. Yesterday, 19 of January 2017, at around 23:30UTC, it successfully deployed the two TubeSats hosted inside its structure, TANCREDO I and OSNSAT. One hour later, at around 00:30 UTC the satellite contacted the GAUSS Ground station […]
The TuPOD has officially been deployed by the astronauts of the “Kibo” Experiment Module of the ISS on January 16, 2017 at 10:50GMT, as scheduled. The astronauts manually set the launch of six small satellites that were transported to the ISS aboard the spacecraft “KOUNOTORI-6” last month, including the TuPOD. The astronauts accomplished the task using […]
The ultimate step of the TuPOD‘s itinerary is fast approaching: the date of its deployment from the International Space Station (ISS) is set for January 16 (Monday), 2017, at 10:50 GMT (19:50 JST). The astronauts of the Japanese Experiment Module “KIBO” (JEM) will deploy the satellite that was carried aboard the spacecraft HTV-6. The TuPOD reached the ISS on […]
Four days after the successful launch of the H-2B rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center (Japan), as planned, the TuPOD safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), on-board the HTV-6 supply ship. In fact, the HTV-6 docking went along on schedule: on Tuesday December 13, at 10:39 a.m. (GMT), “KOUNOTORI6” was captured by the ISS’ robotic arm (Canadarm-2, 17.6 meters-long) […]
