DTUsat

DTUsat is build by students at DTU from: DTU Informatics, DTU Electro, DTU Nanotech, DTU Photonics and DTU Space. The satellite is build as a 1U cubesat, i.e. 100x100x100 mm3 and 1 kg. The primary mission is bird tracking.

	(Photo: Carsten Broder Hansen/IPU)

• 08-01-10 The Track-a-Sat kit works! The DTUsat team developed a portable Ground Station for beacon reception in the field - and tested it.
• 23-09-09 PSLV C14 launched today carrying 4 Cubesats: UWE-2, BeeSat, ITUpSAT1 and SwissCube. We will listen for their beacons
• 01-09-09 Rocket Scientists Rocks! A team of five: four DTUsat students and the project manager participated in the DHL relay.
• 13-08-09 Shaken not stirred! DTUsat went on the shaker table and came off with no system casualties.
• 11-05-09 DTUsat received funding for LEOP event. DTUsat invites Danish High Schools to help locating DTUsat once in orbit!
• 06-05-09 Make a Gnu Radio BPSK demodulator and WIN a Cake!
• 01-05-09 DTUsat team celebrated the day with a WorkShop.
• 20-02-09 DTUsat owned DTU RoadRunners (a.k.a. FL Smidth Car)
• 20-12-08 DTUsat Team wishes everybody a merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year. The end of the semester was celebrated with a small X-Mas Event. Happy holidays.
• 17-12-08 DTUsat is featured in the 12th December issue of the Engineer. If you a have login for the online version you can read the article here. 
• 20-10-08 It's Alive! After last weeks WorkShop and two additional long days DTUsat Flat Sat took it's first breaths late Friday.
• 10-10-08 New page for informal news posts on the DTUsat project: DTUsat Chit-Chat.
• 09-10-08 DTUsat CDR will take place 7. November 2008.
• 09-06-08 Announcement of the Vega Maiden Flight cubesats - the passengers have been chosen. DTUsat is not one of them, we congratulate the elected.
• 09-06-08 4S Conference Presentation. DTUsat participated in the ESA conference 4S on Rhodes island with the presentation: DTUSAT-2
  THE NEXT GENERATION ANIMAL MIGRATION RESEARCH PLATFORM.
• 29-04-08 DTUsat GS receives AAUsat-II beacons that could be fully decoded.
• 28-04-08 DTUsat congratulates AAUsat-II, COMPASS-1 and all other satellittes with the successful launch of PSLV C9.
• 25-04-08 DTUsat PDR will take place 30. April 2008.
• 25-04-08 PSLV C9 Launch Event. The DTUsat group hosts a small launch event in conjunction with the launch off AAUsat-II, COMPASS-1 and other CubeSats.
• 29-01-08 DTUsat team returned from Vega Maiden Flight Cubesat Workshop. See a couple of shots and read some participant impressions.
• 04-01-08 The dean of education has granted DTUsat 100k DKKr (14k €). The donation was earmarked for "improvement of student environment". As a result the DTUsat Test and Integration facility received a significant lift.
• 20-12-07 "Send dit budskab til verdenen" - DTUsat inviterer alle skolebørn til at deltage i konkurrencen. Indsend jeres forslag til et budskab skrevet på DTUsat. Læs mere her.
• 13-12-07 DTUsat invited to participate in Cubesat workshop. From 22-24 January 2008 ESA-Estec will host the Vega Maiden Flight Cubesat Workshop. The workshop follows the CFP issued in October and constitutes the second step towards selection of the six Cubesat's bound to fly on the Vega maiden flight.
• 27-11-07 X-Mas Event in DTUsat Test and Integration Facility. On 7. December we will have a small X-Mas event. Both the project and our Test and Integration facility will be on display. Come by and share a small X-Mas snack.
• 09-10-07 ESA announces contest: "Call for European Student initiatives (SUCCESS)". Win a one-year internship at ESA's space research and technology centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands.
• 11-09-07 Projects pages has been Up-dated.
• 07-09-07 Inauguration. On 5. September Vice-Chancellor Lars Pallesen cut the ribbon to the mark the opening of DTUsat Test and Integration facility.
• 06-07-07 DTUsat Test and Integration Facility. The new Test and Integrations Facility will be inaugurated on 5. September. With this facility the students will be able to work simultaneously on their subsystems in the same lab. Stay tuned for sneak previews. Read more. 
• 21-05-07 DTUsat participates in the ATPM Work Shop. The Animal Tracking and Physical Monitoring Work Shop takes place at Princeton University, New Jersey from 23. to 25. May.  
• 07-05-07 DTUsat successfully customizes triple junction GaAs solar cells. In order to maximize the available power on the small transmitters carried by the Cuckoos a high efficient solar cell has been tailor made.
• 26-04-07 DTUsat MMD Revised version. In conjunction with the merger of Danish National Space Center and DTU the DTUsat project structure changed a little. A revised version of the MDD is now available.
• 17-04-07 Dnepr 2 Launch. DTUsat ground station succesfully receives and records signal from CAPE-1 and CP-4. Read more.
• 13-04-07 NASA and ESA Astronauts visits DTU. DTUsat FlatSat was presented to the STS-116 crew during their visit at DTU.
• 09-04-07 Release MECH succesfully tested. The FlatSat version of the Release MECH that releases the Gravity Gradient Boom succesfully passed the function test.
• 04-04-07 Launch event. The DTUsat project will arrange a small launch event in conjunction with the Dnepr Launch 2. If you are interested in participating please contact René Fléron (rwf - at - spacecenter.dk).
• 04-04-07 DTUsat to be presented to STS-116 astronaut team during their visit at DTU 12 April 2007. DTUsat students who wish to participate should contact René Fléron.
• 04-04-07 DTUsat project migrates to Danish National Space Center (DRC). In conjunction with the fusion between DTU and DRC the DTUsat Project Coordinator has moved to DRC and the new project manager is Flemming Hansen from DRC. The project is still a cross disciplinary effort involving many DTU institutes.
• 15-02-07 Win a bottle of Cava. Design the coolest DTUsat mission patch.

News Archive

Click here or the DTUsat logo to the right to download the "Project Catalogue 2007".

The DTUsat project in an ongoing activity at the Technical University of Denmark where students build, launch, and operate satellites under the guidance of Faculty members from a range of University Departments. The DTUsat homepage is designed and edited by René Fléron, comments: rwf@oersted.dtu.dk.