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Navigation signals for Earth observation are tested from space

The first Catalan nanosatellite, designed by the UPC, was successfully launched with three experiments on board

CubeCat-2 is the first Catalan nanosatellite to be placed in orbit. Designed and built by researchers of the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications and the NanoSat Lab, both at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the satellite carries three experiments to demonstrate the feasibility of techniques and technologies related to the use of satellite navigation signals for remote sensing applications. It will also test instruments for a future mission of the European Space Agency.

06/09/2016
At 7.40 p.m. CEST on 15 August, an LM-2D rocket was launched from the Jiuquan base in China, putting three mini-satellites into orbit at an altitude of about 500 km. One of them was An interview with Hugo Carreño and Roger Jové, former doctoral students of the UPC at the NanoSat Lab, in the section We are UPC (in Spanish)


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