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UPC project receives ESA’s Sentinel Small Satellite Challenge award and is the overall winner of the Copernicus Masters.
The project, called Federated satellite system 6U tandem mission for sea ice and soil moisture monitoring (FSSCat)
FSSCat assemble is progressing
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 …
General Introduction to FSSCat
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, …