Home Communication News Back New search Date Min Max Aeronautics Automotive Corporate Cybersecurity Defense and Security Financial Healthcare Industry Intelligent Transportation Systems Digital Public Services Services Space Space GMV participates in OPS-SAT, ESA's Cubesat mission 15/05/2015 Print Share OPS-SAT, scheduled for launch in 2017, is a reconfigurable in-orbit laboratory suitable for performing potentially risky experiments in mission-control capabilities. It consists of a CubeSat (3U) satellite that is only 30cm high but which contains an experimental computer that is ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft. The GMV´s Poland subsidiary is responsible for On-board Software and the Software Validation Facility including the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) algorithms, providing support to the Prime Contractor (Graz University of Technology, Austria) during all project phases.This in-orbit laboratory will fulfil the availability of a testing platform for new procedures, techniques or systems, which could be too dangerous for the existing valuable satellites. The OPS-SAT solution provides a low-cost satellite that is rock-solid safe and robust even if there are any testing malfunctions. Over 100 companies and institutions from 17 European countries have registered experimental proposals to fly on OPS-SAT. This first cubesat ESA mission ushers GMV in the expanding business of nanosatellites, providing its expertise in GNC/ADCS field to design a robust and safe ADCS with a limited and miniaturized set of actuators and sensors for such platforms. Print Share Related Space GMV secures major contract for ESA’s CyberCUBE mission to bolster Space Cybersecurity Space Seville hosts LangDev 2024: the aerospace sector and security, key players Space Galileo G2 reaches key milestone with successful integration of space and ground segments