ALainSat-1 Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	ALainSat-1 (3Cat-6)
Form factor	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher	Falcon 9, (Transporter-12)
Organisation	The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC)
Institution	Space agency
Entity	Government (Civil / Military)
Nation	United Arab Emirates
Partners	IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Telkom University, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Oneliner	Allow student teams to develop Earth Observation payloads for a small satellite.
Description	AlainSat-1 is a collaboration project between NSSTC and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in the form of the and GRSS Student Grand Challenge in order to allow student teams to develop Earth Observation payloads for a small satellite. The three winning teams building the satellite payload are: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain: An L-band radiometer for monitoring soil moisture, a multispectral camera for monitoring vegetation, and a software defined radio for monitoring Radio Frequency Interference along with an antenna system. Telkom University, Indonesia: A camera and a miniature spectrometer for atmospheric sensing. Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan: Algorithms for onboard image classification to automatically detect the best quality images for downlinking.
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Last modified: 2024-12-29