The Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative (SSETI) is a unique project put into execution by students from different universities spread over

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. In collaboration with

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they aim to build

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s together. Most universities do not have capabilities to build their own complete satellite. The SSETI aims to combine different academic capabilities to realise

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student missions. Space projects, which are beyond the local existing capabilities, will be made possible through the fragmentation and redistribution of many small, locally achievable tasks. Ambitious projects, such as a

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, may be realised by this distributed development.

SWARM

SWARM is the youngest project in line. SWARM will be developed consisting by a

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releasing femtosatellites into

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from where scientific and/or technical experiments will be conducted.

ESEO

The ESEO ( European Student Earth Orbiter) project was started as part of the SSETI project family, in collaboration with the

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who ran the project independently from SSETI. ESEO was launched from

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on 3 December 2018 as a part of

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's SmallSat Express and was expected to function for 6 to 18 months. The Mission Control Center was located in

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(

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). The ESEO project concluded in December 2020, after operating for two years.

ESMO

The ESMO (

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) project was started as part of the SSETI project family, in collaboration with the European Space Agency who now run the project independently from SSETI.

References

External links

SSETI Website

A3E Website (SPAIN/Catalan Division)

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SWARM

ESEO

ESMO

See also

References

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