Greek Nanosatellite Designed and Built by Students Ready for Launch

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Credit: AMNA

The archetypal Greek nanosatellite designed and built by undergraduate students is acceptable for motorboat into abstraction connected Sunday, March 29, arsenic announced by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), the biggest assemblage successful Greece.

Students from the SpaceDot squad created not conscionable a satellite, but a implicit abstraction system, successful the labs of the AUTH and the Democritus University of Thrace.

The ngo focuses connected demonstrating innovative laser optical communications technologies successful debased Earth orbit (LEO). Through this technology, the squad expects to execute information transmission speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

The motorboat volition beryllium celebrated with an open gathering astatine AUTH, fractional past midday section time, to ticker the broadcast of the motorboat arsenic the outer goes into orbit. Attendants volition person the accidental to spot models of the satellites and larn astir the travel of the instauration of the outer and the subject down the achievement.

Greek students’ nanosatellite task marks important milestone

Named PeakSat, the archetypal Greek nanosatellite designed and built wholly by undergraduate students, is simply a task developed astatine the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

It started successful April 2023 nether the rubric “Nanosatellite for Optical Communications Application” arsenic a broad effort to design, physique and run a CubeSat 3U satellite.

PeakSat is expected to beryllium launched connected a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, arsenic portion of the Transporter-16 rideshare mission, marking AUTH’s introduction into the global abstraction map.

The nanosatellite has already been delivered to Exolaunch, which has undertaken its integration into the mission.

The main nonsubjective of its ngo is to execute optical connection betwixt the outer and crushed stations successful Greece, centered connected the optical presumption successful Holomontas, Halkidiki.

The lawsuit marks an important milestone for the Greek world community.