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In: PW-Sat

02
Nov

Summary of PW-Sat project – the first Polish satellite

One year ago – on October 28, 2014 our previous satellite PW-Sat deorbited and burned in the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. It went to space in February 2012 and…

10
Feb

PW-Sat – two years on orbit

13th of February 2014 is the second anniversary of launch of the first Polish student-made satellite PW-Sat. Currently Students’ Space Association on Warsaw University  of Technology is working on another satellite…

13
Feb

The first anniversary of launch of the first Polish satellite – the PW-Sat and beginning of the next satellite project at the Warsaw University of Technology

 Sorry, only in Polish at this time. Pierwszy polski satelita od roku na orbicie 13 lutego 2012 roku na orbicie okołoziemskiej znalazł się pierwszy polski satelita – PW-Sat. Urządzenie, którego…

31
Jan

Vega integrated in the blink of an eye

While PW-Sat waits for the launch (planned for February 9, 2012, 11:00-13:00 hours Polish time), we suggest to have a quick look at the process of rocket assembly. The animation…

17
Dec

Animation: PW-Sat on orbit

PW-Sat is on orbit – so far only in a virtual meaning. Satellite in space environment can be seen in the animation prepared by Paweł Sańczyk. We can watch how…

15
Dec

P-POD containers integrated

PW-Sat and other CubeSats are one step closer to the launch! The European Space Agency has just announced the completion of the next, important step of the preparation: all satellites…

13
Dec

Vote for PW-Sat!

Do you consider PW-Sat as the most important scientific event of 2011? If so, visit the Focus magazine web-page and vote for the PW-Sat in the “Soczewki Focusa 2011” contest….

09
Nov

CubeSats integration in Toulouse

In recent days, the PW-Sat has been transported from ESTEC (Netherlands) to Toulouse (France), where the final integration of all satellites will take place. Yesterday the official measurement of the…

18
Oct

PW-Sat reached the ESTEC labs

Today afternoon PW-Sat reached the labs at ESA ESTEC (Noordwijk, Netherlands). In the picture we can see the satellite in the so-called “clean room” (a lab space with low level…

18
Oct

PW-Sat is done! It has already left Poland

On Monday, October 17, 2011 at 14:36 in the laboratory of the Space Research Centre PAS two gentle clicks were heard. Faces of the PW-Sat project engineers revealed gladness. After…