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UPSat
UPSat was the first satellite manufactured in Greece to be successfully launched into orbit, by the University of Patras and Libre Space Foundation (an earlier Greek-made communications satellite, HELMARS-SAT, although entirely constructed by 1999, was not launched due to budget limitations). It was part of the QB50 mission with ID GR-02. The UPSat mission was the first satellite launched into orbit made entirely of open-source software and open-source hardware. Open-source The UPSat mission developed an open-source hardware and software 2U cubesat, minimizing the use of commercial off the shelf components, and providing hardware and software designs under the provisions of the CERN-OHLv2 and GNU-GPLv3 licenses respectfully. The vast majority of its components were designed from scratch in an open-source software and hardware way. Mission UPSat, as part of the QB50 cubesat constellation, was launched to the International Space Station at April 18, 2017 11:11 EDT at Cape Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libre Space Foundation
Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a Greece, Greek Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization dedicated to developing open-source technologies for space exploration. It was founded in 2015 by the creators of SatNOGS, a global network of satellite Ground station, ground stations, now operated by the foundation. In 2017 it launched its first satellite, UPSat, which was the first satellite manufactured in Greece and the first satellite made entirely with open-source software and open-source hardware. Since then it has gotten two more satellites to orbit while working on other projects as well, such as designing and manufacturing a Hybrid-propellant rocket, hybrid-fueled sounding rocket. Background In 2014 the founders of the Libre Space Foundation participated in NASA's SpaceApps Challenge at the Hackerspace.gr, Athens Hackerspace with their SatNOGS project, an open source network of Ground station, ground stations. They didn't win but competed in another competition the same year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
