Abstract:
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This paper introduces UPCSat-1
,
the first project of the
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya to build and launch a
pico-satellite. Its main scope is to develop, construct,
assembly, test and launch into a Low Earth Orbit a CubeSat
that will carry a simple optical payload and some
technological demonstrators. On one hand, this is mainly an
educational project in which the development of some of the
subsystems is carried out by Master Thesis students. On the
other hand, the satellite becomes an optimum platform to
perform small scientific experiments, and to demonstrate
some of the new technologies that it incorporates. |