{"id":343543,"date":"2017-07-12T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b00a8ae5dadf92a91ef9ccd4897bcb27"},"modified":"2017-07-12T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:37:00","slug":"gomx-4b-cubesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=343543","title":{"rendered":"GomX-4B CubeSat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA standard satellite needs extensive test facilities to put it through its paces, but a laboratory desktop has been used to simulate this ESA CubeSat\u2019s post-deployment activation.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA\u2019s GomX-4B CubeSat will test inter-satellite links and propulsive orbit control techniques for future constellation operations with a twin called GomX-4A, which is owned by the Danish Ministry of Defence under a separate contract.\n<\/p>\n

\nBoth \u20186-unit\u2019 CubeSats are being built and tested by Danish nanosatellite specialist GomSpace<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nA video<\/a> shows a simulation of GomX-4B\u2019s \u2018launch and early operations phase\u2019.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is the crucial phase when the nanosatellite is released from its launcher and initially tumbles through space \u2013 reproduced by hand here \u2013 before deploying its antennas to link up with controllers back on Earth.\n<\/p>\n

\nSee GomX-4B\u2019s vibration test \u2013 simulating the violent shaking of its rocket launch \u2013 here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nDue to fly flight in September 2017, GomX-4B<\/a> is supported through the In-Orbit Demonstration element of ESA\u2019s General Support Technology Programme<\/a>, focused on readying new products for space and the marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nA standard satellite needs extensive test facilities to put it through its paces, but a laboratory desktop has been used to simulate this ESA CubeSat’s post-deployment activation.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA’s GomX-4B CubeSat will test inter-satellite links and propulsive orbit control techniques for future constellation operations with a twin called GomX-4A, which is owned by the Danish Ministry of Defence under a separate contract.\n<\/p>\n

\nBoth ‘6-unit’ CubeSats are being built and tested by Danish nanosatellite specialist GomSpace<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nA video<\/a> shows a simulation of GomX-4B’s ‘launch and early operations phase’.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is the crucial phase when the nanosatellite is released from its launcher and initially tumbles through space – reproduced by hand here – before deploying its antennas to link up with controllers back on Earth.\n<\/p>\n

\nSee GomX-4B’s vibration test – simulating the violent shaking of its rocket launch – here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nDue to fly flight in September 2017, GomX-4B<\/a> is supported through the In-Orbit Demonstration element of ESA’s General Support Technology Programme<\/a>, focused on readying new products for space and the marketplace.<\/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-343543","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\/343543","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=343543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344081,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343543\/revisions\/344081"}],"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=343543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}