Category: FSSCat

UPC team assembles the 3Cat-5/A Flexible Microwave Payload – 2 (FMPL-2) in the UPC NanoSat Lab clean room. 3Cat-5A/B satellite integration will take place on December 2018 in Tyvak premises in Turin (Italy). Launch is foreseen for Q2-Q3 2019 using a VEGA launcher.   3Cat ground station at Montsec astronomical …

Service summary FSSCat is an innovative mission concept consisting of two federated 6U Cubesats in support of the Copernicus Land and Marine Environment services. They carry a dual microwave payload (a GNSS-Reflectometer and a L-band radiometer with interference detection/mitigation), and a multi-spectral optical payload to measure soil moisture, ice extent, …