Space It Up!
National space research programme. The lab contributes line of sight stabilisation for very low orbit platforms and the robotic testbed for ground validation of optical navigation.
Activity
Projects
Funded projects and internal activities where the lab contributes navigation, attitude and payload technologies for small platforms.
Ongoing
ABACO
Study and development of accurate, cost-effective solutions for autonomous collision avoidance, from impact probability computation to mitigation procedures.
OB-ASTRA
On-board autonomy for space traffic management, with conjunction detection and manoeuvre logic executed directly on the satellite computer.
CuBACO
Maturing a subsystem from TRL 4 to TRL 7, with requirements specification, verification campaign and Statement of Compliance.
INNOVATOR
CubeSat mission with development of the inter-satellite link transceiver, presented at the 4S 2024 symposium.
CUSP
CUbesat Solar Polarimeter: a two CubeSat constellation for X-ray polarimetry of solar flares and space weather.
Flown missions
AlmaSat-1
University microsatellite technology demonstrator, carrying micropropulsion and transmission experiments. Launched on 13 February 2012 on the maiden flight of the VEGA launcher, re-entered the atmosphere on 25 April 2020 after 2994 days in orbit.
ESEO
European Student Earth Orbiter, an educational mission of the European Space Agency. The lab provided the GNSS navigation subsystem and took part in operations. Launched on 3 December 2018, it is still in a sun-synchronous orbit at about 553 km.