AQUIS Spacecraft

Take our very own pictures of the beautiful planet Earth from Space, and design one of the most advanced 1p PocketQubes ever created.

Our mission is to take our very own pictures of the beautiful planet Earth from Space, and for that we are set to design one of the most advanced 1p PocketQubes ever created.
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Systems on board:

• An electrical power system to gather, store and distribute sufficient electrical power for all systems that need it.
• An on-board computer to operate the satellite semi-autonomously based on on-board data and ground requests.
• A communication system to transfer data or pictures taken and receive commands from the ground operations team.
• A deployment system to activate the satellite once placed in orbit and switch from its compact launch configuration to its functional configuration.
• An attitude control system so that the solar cells are pointed to the Sun for energy generation and the camera is pointed to the Earth.
• A self-developed propulsion system for collisionavoidance maneuvers and compensation of aerodynamic drag.