Phi-Sat-2 Spacecraft

Phi-Sat-2
Phi-Sat-2
Phi-Sat-2
Phi-Sat-2
Phi-Sat-2
Phi-Sat-2
Satellite Φsat-2 (Phi-Sat-2, PhiSat-2, PHISAT 2)
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 6U
Mass in kg 8.9 kg
Status Operational (First images from the satellite shared, last checked 2024-09-02)
Launched 2024-08-16
NORAD ID 60470
Deployer EXOpod Nova 12U/16U [Exolaunch]
Launcher Falcon 9 (Transporter-11)
Organisation 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
Partners CEiiA (Centre of Engineering and Product Development)
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.

This satellite will host a multispectral Imager and six AI applications designed to turn images into maps, detect clouds in the images, classify them and provide insight into cloud distribution, detect and classify vessels, compress images on board and reconstruct them in the ground reducing the download time, spot anomalies in marine ecosystems and do wildfire detection.

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. 

Sources [1] [2] [3]
Photo sources [1] [2] [3] [4]
COTS subsystems
  • IMAGER - Simera Space MultiScape100
  • PLATFORM - Open Cosmos
Subsystems sources [1]
Space photos Phi-Sat-2Phi-Sat-2

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On the same launch

Last modified: 2024-12-22

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