A wild few days here at FOSSA Systems as our first satellite launches into orbit aboard the Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket and is successfully jettisoned and deployed! The first few hours post-deployment were a nail biting experience as it struggled to transmit its information. After detecting very faint signals, the online satellite community has received...
The FOSSASAT-1 launch (as of 25/11/19) is scheduled for 28/11/2019 at 07:56. Live updates for launch times are posted on Rocket Lab’s twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/RocketLab and the launch is called “Running Out Of Fingers”. The livestream will be posted on their website here: www.rocketlabusa.com/live-stream and https://www.youtube.com/user/RocketLabNZ. I am pleased to announce that our...
Hi! We are very excited to say that FOSSASAT-1 has been integrated into the Alba Orbital deployment system, ready for launch! (See our twitter at @fossasys for pictures). Alba Orbital held a conference, drinks and talks event in Glasgow that showcased pocketqubes being worked on and more. It was amazing to see how far and...
Hello! Lots of great things are happening at FOSSA at the moment which we cannot wait to share with you. We are scheduled to launch in a couple of months so it is a very exciting time here. A huge thank you to Jan who has joined FOSSA to help improve the software! Some...
As the time to launch approaches closer we have some excellent news which we will share as soon as we get the OK. As usual, the development is ploughing forward for both hardware and software, both are coming to an apex where the software is passing rigorous test documents an the hardware is reaching the...
It’s been nearly 3 months since our last development update and we are pleased to come back with great exciting news! Make sure to follow us @FossaSys for daily updates on our development and advances! Satellite Development and Testing Since our last update, the satellite has undergone extensive testing in a wide range of...
We once again have a very loaded update for our FossaSat-1 project full of advancements and announcements. Launch We are very proud to announce we have signed an orbital launch contract with Alba Orbital for a 385km SSO launch aboard a Rocket Labs Electron Rocket in Q2 of 2019. This marks a major step in...
The last couple of weeks have mainly consisted of paperwork here at Fossa Systems, for a specific reason though! We are very proud to announce that our FOSSASAT-1 satellite request has been submitted to the International Amateur Radio Union and the International Telecommunications Union and is finally in process. This will be the first Spanish...
Today we have a pretty exciting update, quite a bit of thing have happened since last week mostly regarding the outreach of the project. I had the opportunity to give a brief presentation about the FOSSASAT-1 project at the Open source CubeSat Workshop in the European Space Astronomy Center in Madrid last week. This was an...
We are back with a new update! Richard had been hard working on the website and as you can probably tell it has had a major update, hopefully this will make it easier to navigate the different aspects of the website. Last weekend we presented our FossaSat-1 project at the IberRadio 2018 Spanish Radio Amateur conference,...
