{"id":220608,"date":"2014-07-22T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/80d9cefbe7c1c8cadc79ee2b1bd154b4"},"modified":"2014-07-22T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:21:00","slug":"aausat4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220608","title":{"rendered":"Aausat4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to \u201310\u00b0C and heating it to +45\u00b0C for more than two weeks. This harsh baptism will make sure that it can cope with the conditions in space.\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat is a 10x10x10 cm satellite designed and built by students of the Aalborg University in Denmark. As part of ESA education\u2019s Fly Your Satellite! programme, the satellite will be sent into space and the students have the chance to test it at the Mechanical Systems Laboratory at ESA\u2019s technical heart, ESTEC, in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe wires trailing from the satellite are to measure temperature and for power \u2013 it will fly without the wires and plastic casing.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe satellite seen here, Aausat4, will track ships around Greenland using radio identification signals. Its predecessor, Aausat3, is reaching the end of its life after 18 months in space, having received 100 000 signals from ships in the first week alone.\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat4 features a significant upgrade in software and better-protected solar panels that will deliver more power. ESA\u2019s education programme is supporting Aausat4 testing, and if the satellite confirms its flightworthiness, the Agency will sponsor a launch opportunity.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAausat4 is run and made by students,\u201d explain Mathias M\u00f8lgaard and Kasper Hemme, students from Aalborg University. \u201cThe systems are designed inhouse and it has been a great help for completing our thesis.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cESA Education is offering interesting hands-on programmes to university students,\u201d says Piero Galeone, programme manager for Fly Your Satellite! \u201cStudents can participate in space programmes under ESA supervision, and can use state-of-the-art facilities, acquainting themselves with concepts and work practice used by space professionals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat5 will be a copy of this model, but it will be released into space in 2015 by none other than Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his nine-day mission on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\nThe miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to \u201310\u00b0C and heating it to +45\u00b0C for more than two weeks. This harsh baptism will make sure that it can cope with the conditions in space.\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat is a 10x10x10 cm satellite designed and built by students of the Aalborg University in Denmark. As part of ESA education\u2019s Fly Your Satellite! programme, the satellite will be sent into space and the students have the chance to test it at the Mechanical Systems Laboratory at ESA\u2019s technical heart, ESTEC, in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe wires trailing from the satellite are to measure temperature and for power \u2013 it will fly without the wires and plastic casing.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe satellite seen here, Aausat4, will track ships around Greenland using radio identification signals. Its predecessor, Aausat3, is reaching the end of its life after 18 months in space, having received 100 000 signals from ships in the first week alone.\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat4 features a significant upgrade in software and better-protected solar panels that will deliver more power. ESA\u2019s education programme is supporting Aausat4 testing, and if the satellite confirms its flightworthiness, the Agency will sponsor a launch opportunity.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAausat4 is run and made by students,\u201d explain Mathias M\u00f8lgaard and Kasper Hemme, students from Aalborg University. \u201cThe systems are designed inhouse and it has been a great help for completing our thesis.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n\u201cESA Education is offering interesting hands-on programmes to university students,\u201d says Piero Galeone, programme manager for Fly Your Satellite! \u201cStudents can participate in space programmes under ESA supervision, and can use state-of-the-art facilities, acquainting themselves with concepts and work practice used by space professionals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nAausat5 will be a copy of this model, but it will be released into space in 2015 by none other than Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his nine-day mission on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220619,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220608\/revisions\/220619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}