On tuesday, January 29 a month passed from the deorbit sail deployment and the beginning of the PW-Sat2 satellite’s main experiment. The deployment technology test turned out to be a…

Just a few minutes to 10:00 UTC on December 29th PW-Sat2 deployed its main experiment – 4 m2 deorbit sail. After 9:00 UTC team of operators, operating two mission ground…

PW-Sat2 satellite deorbit sail will be deployed sooner than we have initially planned. The original schedule of the mission assumed that the satellite’s deorbit system will be activated no later…

Since the start of the PW-Sat2 satellite’s mission on December 3, 2018, we have completed most of the planned tasks. The successful conduct of all the phases of the mission…

Publication of our Earth photos raised an incredible interest among our fans, especially in the comments section of our posts and articles. Many of you have pointed out the low…

The first stage of the satellite mission has been finished after 5 days and 30 communication sessions. During the aforementioned time, PW-Sat2 managed to check the operation of all basic…

On the second day of its mission, on December 5 at 10:38 UTC, student satellite PW-Sat2 entered the field of vision of the ground station in Warsaw. The operators sent…

Launch of the PW-Sat2 – 4th Polish satellite is expected to take place as soon as 19th November 2018! During its  40-day long mission PW-Sat2 will operate in amateur bands…

In May 2018, the PW-Sat2 satellite, built by members of the Students’ Space Association WUT was fully integrated, tested and prepared for launch. Since then, it has been waiting in…

After several months of very intensive work, on February 28th, 2018 PW-Sat2’s integration was completed. The satellite built by students of the Warsaw University of Technology is ready for the…

By the end of November 2017, the PW-Sat2 team successfully conducted deployment tests of the deorbit sail in conditions of microgravity and decreased pressure in the Centre of Applied Space…

We’re happy to inform that we are accepted to present the design of our deorbit sail during 9th European CubeSat Symposium that is going to take place in November in…

PW-Sat2 team has another marvelous message we can share with you! Our team has qualified for the Drop Tower Experiment Series (DropTES) organized by The United Nations Office for Outer…

The Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering (WUT) where the PW-Sat2 project is being conducted started a cooperation with The Center for Advanced Materials and Technology CEZAMAT. The agreement signing allowed…

We are glad to welcome new companies among our partners – Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) and Ignacy Łukasiewicz Polish Oil and Gas Foundation. The organizations have supported our…

On January 14-15, 2017 we had a pleasure to visit Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) at Technology Forum on Student Micro/nanosatellites. PW-Sat2 was represented in China by the project coordinator Inna…

We’d like to present out new animation of PW-Sat2 deorbit sail deployment. It was developed by Marcin Świetlik, author of PW-Sat2 3D renders, and finally edited by Piotr Kuligowski –…

The representation of PW-Sat2 team participated in Deorbit Device Competition, which took place during the UNISEC-Global Meeting. We are glad to inform that PW-Sat2’s deorbit sail won the second place,…

We’re happy to announce the next success of PW-Sat2 team. We are one of the finalists of the international Deorbit Device Competition. The finals will take place on October 20,…

We are glad to announce that the Warsaw University of Technology have established a cooperation withFuture Processing Sp. z o.o. and FP Instruments Sp. z o.o. that became the strategic partners of…

There is a new press kit available for download describing current status of the project, satellite design and our experiments. There have been few major changes since last release, so we encourage you to download and read the document.

We’ve been invited to the Polish Embassy in Rome recently. On November 24 we had a chance to take part in the official Copernicus programme meeting and to listen to few…

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…

Jerusalem is hosting one of the most important events … the International Astronautical Congress IAC 2015. Among numerous lectures and presentations there are two ones important for us, the PW-Sat2…

Our project – PW-Sat2 – has come a long way since 2013 when the work started and we created our initial assumptions. When we look at our ideas from the…

We’ve just published our new press kit and we encourage you to download and read it. [fileaway type=”table” base=”3″ mod=”no” only=”.pdf” images=”none”] See also our new PW-Sat2 renders. We’d like…

We’re very happy to present our new animation of PW-Sat2 sail unwinding and deorbitation made by our team-member Marcin Świetlik. Please, share it and if you have any questions –…

PW-Sat has disappeared from the NORAD TLE data base on 28th of October 2014. From the data we obtained it seems that our first satellite deorbited after 2 years, 8…

The tests campaign of PW-Sat satellite was a great success. During a few last weeks the satellite was subjected to the simulated conditions of rocket launch and to the expected…