European Student Earth Orbiter
| ESEO | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Training satellite , amateur radio satellite |
| Operator: |
 ESA , AMSAT-UK
|
| COSPAR-ID : | 2018-099AL |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | ≈45 kg |
| Size: | 33 cm × 33 cm × 63 cm |
| Begin: | December 3, 2018, 13:34 UTC |
| Starting place: | Vandenberg AFB SLC-4E |
| Launcher: | Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) |
| Status: | in orbit |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 96.3 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.8 ° |
| Apogee height : | 597 km |
| Perigee height : | 579 km |
European Student Earth Orbiter ( ESEO ) is a microsatellite project of the ESA which serves the education of students and also carries an amateur radio payload . ESEO is a mission of the Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative .
target
The educational goal is defined: The participating students should be able to gain practical experience with a real space project in order to prepare themselves as qualified technical personnel for the European space sector. This was achieved by giving the student the opportunity to control the payload (scientific instruments or technology demonstration experiments), key satellite subsystems and the ground segment (ground stations and mission control) under the coordination of ESA and the Italian company SITAEL (prime contractor, responsible for the Satellite platform, system integration and tests). Ten universities from eight ESA member states (Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom) are involved in the project. More than 600 students have been involved in the project since the beginning. The mission also serves to evaluate the S-50 satellite platform from SITAEL. The mission should last six months, with the option to extend the duration by another 12 months.
construction
The satellite carries the following experimental payloads:
- Training and Communication System ( AMSAT-UK )
- Position determination experiment ( Delft University of Technology )
- Camera experiment ( Tartu University observatory )
- Re- Entry Mechanism ( Cranfield University )
- TRITEL Telescope Dosimeter Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Langmuir probe (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- Power supply system (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- S-band communication system (10 Mbps @ 2200–2290 MHz) ( University of Wroclaw )
- GPS receiver and orbit determination ( University of Bologna )
mission
The satellite was launched on December 3, 2018 at 13:34 UTC with the Falcon 9 flight SSO-A together with 63 other small satellites from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4 in the USA.
The Mission Control Center is located in Forlì (Italy).
Frequencies
- 437,000 MHz downlink telemetry beacon 4k8 or 9k6 GMSK AX.25
- 145.895 MHz 4k8 BPSK (FUNcube-4-Bake)
- 145.985 MHz downlink FM
- 1,263.500 MHz uplink (FM CTCSS 67.0 Hz)
Web links
- ESA: About ESEO - The European Student Earth Orbiter (English)