24/11/2023
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Constructed by college students at College School Dublin underneath steerage of ESA’s Schooling Workplace, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat carrying three experiments, together with a novel gamma ray detector that can research a few of the most luminous explosions within the universe.
The mission has been in improvement because the crew was accepted to the ESA Academy Fly Your Satellite tv for pc! programme in 2017. Over the previous six years, the scholars have labored with ESA consultants and purchased the skilled competences wanted to design and construct their satellite tv for pc. They have been accompanied via take a look at campaigns at ESA Schooling’s CubeSat Help Facility in Belgium and different ESA websites, and have been additionally supplied by ESA the chance to launch their satellite tv for pc.
Whereas the satellite tv for pc makes its method to the launch pad, the coed crew is making ready to function the satellite tv for pc from Mission Management at College School Dublin.
Discover out extra about this distinctive mission throughout our reside launch protection. Irish broadcaster Rick O’Shea, with visitors from ESA and the EIRSAT-1 crew, will take viewers via the mission’s historical past and main launch milestones together with liftoff, separation and acquisition of sign, from exterior the EIRSAT-1 Mission Management Room. Níl aon satailít mar do shatailít féin! [There’s no satellite like your own satellite!]
Be taught extra about how college students have constructed Eire’s first satellite tv for pc.
