LEDSAT

LEDSAT is all good and alive in space! We received the telemetry around 10.40 during the first pass over Rome 👋🛰👋✅

WE ARE IN ORBIT 😍😍😍😍😍🚀

Europe’s has delivered -4 and four auxiliary payloads, , and LEDSAT developed through ESA, and -4, to their planned orbits 👉 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Vega_launches_Pleiades_Neo_and_CubeSats

SUCCESSFUL DEPLOYMENT FOR LEDSAT!

Congratulations LEDSAT on successful deployment! 🎉🎇 The 1U CubeSat has been inserted into a sun-synchronous orbit of 540 km around the Gulf of Mexico. Beacon should activate in ~ 50 minutes. Radio amateurs, listen up: https://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Be_the_first_to_hear_LEDSAT_in_orbit

Can you believe it’s LAUNCH DAY???

Lift off is scheduled for 3.47am CEST / 1.47am UTC - follow us for more updates on the launch of Vega VV19 with LEDSAT on-board!

Godspeed LEDSAT 🥲❤️🚀

In the last two days, we integrated LEDSAT in the flight deployer, which is now being transported to the launch site! This concludes the cycle of on-ground activities, from design to qualification of the satellite. We literally can’t wait to see our years of work turning into in-orbit research! Stay tuned for more news on the launch 🚀

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Abbiamo integrato LEDSAT nel deployer di volo, che ora verrà trasportato al sito di lancio! L’integrazione conclude il ciclo di attività a terra su LEDSAT, dal progetto alla qualifica del satellite per il volo. Non vediamo l’ora di vedere questi anni di lavoro trasformarsi nelle operazioni in orbita del satellite! Rimanete aggiornati per tutte le novità su LEDSAT su questa pagina! 🚀

Surprise!
We managed to conclude the environmental testing campaign for LEDSAT at the end of 2020 - the satellite is now (almost) ready to fly and the flight acceptance review is underway!!!

For COVID-related issues, the environmental testing campaign has taken place at our facilities at Sapienza, instead of travelling to Belgium at the ESA - European Space Agency's facilities - nonetheless, the technical support by ESA was huge and allowed us to follow all the needed procedures for testing.

Thanks ESA Education for sharing this nice article and for your huge support during our tests!

And now... Cross your fingers for our acceptance to fly!

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Sorpresa!
Siamo riusciti a terminare la environmental testing campaign di LEDSAT alla fine del 2020 - il satellite è ora (quasi!) pronto al volo e la review finale per l'accettazione del satellite è in corso!!!

Per questioni relative alla possibilità di viaggiare con la pandemia, la campagna di test ha avuto luogo alle nostre facilities alla Sapienza, invece che al centro di testing dell'ESA in Belgio. Nonostante ciò, ESA ci ha supportato tantissimo per riuscire a svolgere i test con tutte le procedure necessarie alla qualifica.

Grazie a ESA Education per aver scritto questo bell'articolo e per il vostro supporto durante i test!

E ora... Incrociate le dita per farci ottenere presto un "biglietto" per il lancio!!!

ESA - "Shake and bake" has concluded: LEDSAT team has completed environmental tests The LEDSAT team, participating in the second round of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme, has completed their crucial structural qualification and thermal-vacuum tests, demonstrating their CubeSat’s readiness to continue with its mission to space!  

LEDSAT has landed on New Scientist! A short article about the mission and on the future usage of LEDs for satellites tracking and space traffic management has been published today on this prestigious science magazine!

Satellites with flashing LEDs could help avoid catastrophic collisions It’s difficult to keep track of satellites in Earth’s orbit and avoid collisions – making them flash dimly should help, without interfering with astronomical work

In these difficult and challenging times, the work on our satellite project is not stopping at all. While social distancing and lockdown have imposed us to keep a higher distance between each other and from our lab and from the satellite hardware, the LEDSAT team has been busy in the past months in setting up all the procedures needed for the upcoming functional tests to be held at the laboratory and of the following environmental testing campaign that will qualify the satellite for launch and operations in space. This ESA Education article deals with how every team participating in Fly Your Satellite! (including us) is coupling the progress on the satellites project with the restrictions that have been enforced worldwide. Easter egg: you'll see a funny picture of some of us enjoying a (very Italian) coffee in teleworking!

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In questi mesi difficili, il lavoro sul nostro satellite non si è affatto fermato. Mentre le nuove regole sul distanziamento sociale e la quarantena ci hanno imposto di mantenere distanze più grandi tra di noi e dal laboratorio e dal satellite, il nostro team si è concentrato nel mettere a punto, negli scorsi mesi, le strategie e le procedure necessarie allo svolgimento dei test funzionali, che si svolgeranno in laboratorio, e a quelli ambientali, che qualificheranno LEDSAT al lancio e alle operazioni nello spazio. Questo articolo di ESA Education vi racconta di come tutti i team di Fly Your Satellite!, noi inclusi, stanno organizzando il lavoro in base alle restrizioni imposte dall'emergenza sanitaria globale. Un piccolo easter egg: troverete una nostra foto mentre ci godiamo un caffè (molto italiano) in telelavoro!

Fly Your Satellite! teams adapt to working in a world changed by COVID-19 The world as we know it has changed, with the COVID-19 pandemic halting many activities around the globe. Showing the innovative can-do attitude that marks successful space engineers, the teams participating in ESA’s Education’s Fly Your Satellite! programme have devised methods to adapt to tele...

Vibration test ended succesfully!🛰
It is now time to perform thermal vacuum test!💪💫

After the test preparation the two control boards and the LED board have been closed inside the TVAC chamber.
At the end of this test it will be sure that components are correctly soldered and LEDSAT will be a little closer to its final phase!👩‍🚀🌏

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Il test di vibrazione si è concluso con successo!
Ora è arrivato il momento del test del termovuoto!
Dopo la preparazione del test le schede di controllo e la scheda LED sono state chiuse all'interno della camera termovuoto.
Alla fine di questo test sarà certo che i componenti siano ben saldati sulle schede e LEDSAT sarà un po più vicino alla sua fase finale!


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