DISCO2 is running a crowd funding campaign to support extra camera payloads in it’s Arctic research mission..

“On DISCO 2, the second satellite in the DISCO project, we want to include 3 cameras, 2 optical and 1 infrared as well as momentum wheels to precisely control the orientation and pointing of the satellite.

Once this satellite is launched in 2023, we will be able top photograph chosen areas of Greenland’s East coast (and other places on Earth) and therefore contribute to climate change research through our collaboration with the Arctic Research Centre at Aarhus University.

For this ambitous project to become a reality, we need your help!

Visit our crowd funding campaign here.”

DISCO2 students

Date/Time
Date(s) - 14/03/2022
10:00 - 16:00

Location
Air Lab @ IT University of Copenhagen

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The DISCO project will launch 3 satellites into Low Earth Orbit over the next three years. To communicate with the satellites we need to have ground stations that manage the radio communications links for telemetry and data transfer.

The DISCO project is building both fixed ground stations at the participating universities, as well as mobile ground stations that can be loaned to schools in the program.

In this workshop we cover the basics of ground station operation and building including demos and a chance to get hands on experience with a range of equipment, both mobile and fixed equipment that will be later installed at ITU.

Topics include:

• Antennas
• Azimuth and Elevation rotators
• Satellite observation prediction and tracking
• Software Defined Radio
• DIY and open source ground stations and Satnogs
• Telemetry decoding
• Satellite IOT and LoRa

Full program and speakers to be confirmed.

The workshop is open to all participants in the DISCO project, and places are limited to 20.

The workshop is FREE, registration is essential, and travel expenses* will be covered by the DISCO project.

The workshop is hosted by ITU’s DASYA group and takes place in the Air Lab, Lab 1, Ground floor at IT University.

Contact Julian Priest [jucp at itu dot dk] for further info.

 

 

 

* (Economy travel by public transport or car is covered through participating university expense reimbursement.)

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For the last months, the Danish Student CubeSat Program (DISCO) has been running a competition for students to design the most awesome mission patch and we are now very excited to announce the winner. The winning mission patch was created by Marc Breiner Sørensen.

Marc’s winning mission patch shows some of the important aspects of the DISCO project, such as the launch with the Falcon 9 rocket and a CubeSat. Another nice twist to the design is that the Earth below is a giant disco ball. DISCO is a collaboration between four Danish universities –  Aalborg University, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark and the IT University of Copenhagen – and their initials have also found their way to the mission patch.

 Last Friday, Marc, who studies physics and astronomy at Aarhus University, received his award for the most awesome mission patch: an Astro Pi kit consisting of a Raspberry Pi 3, a Sense HAT card with a number of built-in measuring instruments, a camera and a power supply. Photo: CK

The first three CubeSats in DISCO are funded by the Danish Industry Foundation and the first of these will be launched by Momentus next summer. The mission patch designed by Marc is for the overall DISCO program. Later, it is foreseen that the individual CubeSats in the DISCO program will get their own mission patches in addition to the DISCO patch.