Phi-Sat-2 Satellite - Nanosats Database

Name	Φsat-2 (Phi-Sat-2, PhiSat-2)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	6U
Status	not launched, expected in 2024
Launcher	Falcon 9, (Transporter-11)
Entity name	ESA (European Space Agency)
Institution	Space agency
Entity type	Government (Civil / Military)
Nation (HQ)	France
Nation (AIT)	UK
Manufacturer	AIVT by Open Cosmos
Operator	Open Cosmos
Oneliner	The ESA Φsat-2 mission consists of on-board processing capabilities (including AI) and a medium to high resolution multispectral instrument.
Description	The ESA Φsat-2 mission consists in a combination of on-board processing capabilities (including AI) and a medium to high resolution multispectral instrument from Visible to Near Infra-Red able to acquire 8 different bands including a panchromatic one. The entire system is packaged into a state of the art 6U cubesat platform able to provide the necessary attitude stability, an high speed X-Band link and an image pre-processor that geolocate the acquired images. These resources will be made available to a series of dedicated Artificial Intelligence applications that will run on-board the spacecraft. During the nominal phase these applications will be initially fine-tuned after the on-ground training and then routinely run. A total of 6 applications will be run in the course of a 12 month mission and 4 of them have been already selected: street mapping, cloud detection, vessel detection and deep compression. Launch is expected in 2024. The NanoSat MO Framework (NMF) is a software framework for CubeSats based on CCSDS Mission Operations services.
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COTS subsystems	IMAGER - Simera Space MultiScape100 PLATFORM - Open Cosmos
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Last modified: 2024-05-29