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As all other institutes at TU Berlin, the institue of aeronautics and astronautics is completely closed. Neither secretariat staff nor lecturers have access to the building. Exams and post-exam reviews will be postponed.
Nevertheless, we are happy to offer the following lecture courses online...
more to: (Digital) Summer Term 2020
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In February 2020 Berlin was hosting „Polytech Days“ organized by Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Prof. Dr.-Eng. Klaus Brieß and Dr. Vyacheslav Potekhin opened the event with their presentation on “Space and Robotics Systems”...
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- BEESAT-9 LEOP Operations in the Mission Control Center
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On 05.07.2019 at 05:41:46 UTC, BEESAT-9 was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 530km with the launch provider EXOLAUNCH on a Soyuz/Fregat rocket. At 10:06 UTC BEESAT-9 was ejected from its launch container. About 30 minutes later, the first signals were received over Berlin.
more to: Successful operations of BEESAT-9
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On July 15, 2019 representatives from different German universities met the coordinator of aviation and space of the government Thomas Jarzombek in the federal ministry for economic affairs and energy.Together they founded the "Kleinsatelliteninitiative deutscher Hochschulen und Universitäten".The initiative aims at increasing the impact of small satellites at German universities and institutions of higher education. TU Berlin is part of the initiative.
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- BEESAT-9 Flight-Model
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From 13 June 2019 to 17 June 2019, BEESAT-9 was successfully checked out at the cosmodrome and finally integrated into the deployer. The satellite launch is scheduled for July 5th, 2019 at 05:41:46 UTC into a sun-synchronous orbit at 530km altitude.
more to: BEESAT-9 is ready for launch
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After one and a half years of preparation, student experiment TUPEX-6 (TU Berlin Picosatellite Experiment 6) is close to the finish line. On the coming weekend, the small satellite developed by the international team will be ejected from a sounding rocket. During its time in the milligravity environment, the goal is to demonstrate an innovative attitude control system on board of their Free-falling Unit (FFU).
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- Camera frame and Sun vector at the time of the first image acquisition
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Just before its second anniversary on orbit, the CubeSat BEESAT-4 (1kg) of TU Berlin passes the minisatellite BIROS (140kg) of DLR. BEESAT-4 passed BIROS on September 5th 2018. The closest approach happened at 3:27pm UTC nearby the south pole. At that time the distance was around 3.7km. The flyby was used to demonstrate the 3-axes stabilized attitude control and point with the camera towards BIROS.
more to: BEESAT-4 passes and images DLR satellite BIROS
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The project SALSA, in which an on-orbit spectrum analyzer was developed, was successfully completed with the qualification review on June 28th 2018. The next step is the integration into a satellite bus as port of the SALSAT project...
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- Antarctic shelf ice recorded by TechnoSat
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Last Saturday marked the first anniversary of the launch of TechnoSat. Since it’s separation on the 14th of July 2017 at 09:03:30 UTC the satellite has almost completed the planned one-year mission after 5438 orbits.
more to: TechnoSat – Mission Accomplished
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Recently students from the Chair of Space Technology were informed that their TU Berlin Picosatellite EXperiment 6 (TUPEX-6) has been granted a flight ticket for the REXUS 25/26 mission. REXUS (Rocket Experiment for University Students) is a joint program funded by the German, European, and Swedish space agencies as well as several companies. Starting in 2007, REXUS selects 8 to 10 student experiments per year to launch on 2 rockets. Fields of study include atmospheric research, physics, materials science, astrophysics, biology, and technology demonstration. The REXUS 25/26 mission is aiming to launch out of Esrange, Sweden in March of 2019.
more to: TUPEX-6 selected to launch on REXUS
- Horizont über Indonesien aufgenommen von TechnoSat am 29. November 2017
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During orbit 2,742 on Sunday, January the 14th , at 09:30 AM (UTC) TechnoSat completed the first half of its mission. And the nano-satellite of Technische Universität Berlin is still in best condition. The platform has proven its reliability and robustness and mastered all tasks to full expectations.
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- First decoded frame of BEESAT-3
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4 Years, 8 months and 20 days after being launched to Low Earth Orbit researchers from Technische Universität Berlin could establish contact to the Picosatellite BEESAT-3 on Sunday, 7th of January 2018 for the first time since its launch. The satellite was commanded from Berlin and its telemetry and morsecode-beacon were received in the Netherlands by radio amateur Jan van Muijlwijk (PA3FXB) of the CAMRAS foundation using the 25m antenna of the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory.
more to: Contact to BEESAT-3 succesfully established
- The four S-Net flight models and the checkout team in Vostochny
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The S-Net Team of TU Berlin successfully conducted the final launch readiness procedure of the four satellites at the Vostochny launch site (Amur Oblast, Russia). The health status of the satellites has been checked, last updates were installed and the integration on the Fregat upper stage was prepared. The S-Net satellites are now ready for the launch!
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- Team SEAR beim DLR SpaceBot Camp 2015
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Early this year, team SEAR received funding for the further development of the rover SEAR. Already in 2013, SEAR was designed and built by students in scope of lecture courses, theses and a project workshop to compete in the DLR SpaceBot Cup 2013. Based on the experiences, substantial advancements in hard- and software could be made.
In preparation for the SpaceBot Camp 2015, a qualification was conducted in September in which the 10 participating teams had to demonstrate certain functions of their systems. Team SEAR was one of three teams who passed the qualification. During the SpaceBot Camp in November, the rover demonstrated that it is able to fulfill all tasks with partial autonomy.
more to: Team SEAR successful at the DLR SpaceBot Camp 2015
