Within the new Bachelors program for "Aerospace Engineering" a bachelor project will be offered this year for the first time. The students shall have the possibility of getting knowledge and hands-on experience in project organisation. The Institute of Space Systems (IRS) will take part in this offer with a project contributing to the Flying Laptop. Part of the work for the students will be the setup of the structural-thermal model of the satellite.

The experiment "EXPLORE" was succesfully performed in the Thermal-Vacuum-Chamber of the Institute of Space Systems. EXPLORE stands for „EXPeriment for Liquid On-orbit REfueling“ and is a student-built experiment which shall be launched with a Rexus rocket form Esrange in northern Sweden in February 2011.

Final work on the algorithms of the attitude control system (ACS) was finished last week.

The pointing accuracy and -stability requirements are fulfilled in all pointing modes (Inertial-, Nadir- and Target Pointing). The support modes (Detumbling, Safe Mode and Idle Mode) are also fully functional.

The new website of the Small Satellites Group is online since yesterday. It offers information about the projects, facilities and student jobs of the Small Satellites Program. By using the RSS-Feeds it is now possible to be always uptodate. Furthermore we now offer the possibility to switch between english and german.

We wish you a pleasant time on our website and we would like to see you to get by now and then.

Today the future parabolic antenna of the ground station was measured, this was necessary due to the incomplete documentation of the antenna.This antenna will replace the smaller one currently mounted to the rotor. The diameter of the larger parabolic antenna is 2,5 m.