S5Lab

We went GO for DEPLOYMENT! 🛰️

Our 2U CubeSat CORAL, developed together with and under a research project has been deployed from the this morning at 08.45 UTC. 🌍

We successfully contacted the satellite shortly after deployment, throughout the first passes over the ground station in Rome. 📡

CORAL is the sixth S5Lab CubeSat to be successfully operated in space. Our research group becomes one of the very few in the world to be controlling 3 CubeSats from different launches and with different missions at the same time, while CORAL joins WildTrackCube-SIMBA and LEDSAT in LEO.

We were happy to participate and cheer in the deployment event today and honoured to have a cheerful comment from Prof. Marco Casolino from celebrating our satellite deployment and the industry-academia partnership that successfully brought to orbit an all Italian satellite.

CORAL will continue its early operations throughout the next few days for later starting its payloads mission.

Photo and Video Credit: JAXA

🚀 Our satellite CORAL has been launched to ISS!

Our 2U CubeSat CORAL has been launched on-board H3 F7 launch to the International Space Station on October 26 and was successfully berthed to the ISS three days later! The satellite has been delivered to the launch authority in August at Tsukuba Space Center, when our team members Lorenzo, Michela and Paolo have helped in the satellite integration in the JSSOD deployer.

The CubeSat has been developed under an initiative, together with as prime and as partner, to demonstrate innovative IoT inter-satellite communications, paving the way toward more agile and sustainable space infrastructures. Our spacecraft acceptance for the inaugural HTV-X1 launch was coordinated by @ Space BD and operated by .

The satellite will initiate its mission in the next weeks, being deployed from the ISS and by remaining in-orbit approximately for the next year.

We are happy to see our sixth satellite launched to space and we are super ready to start its missions and operations! 🌍✨

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GreenCube has started cultivating plants in space! 🌱😍😍.
We are happy to confirm that, after the verification of all subsystems and temperature stabilization of the payload, we have sent the command to start the cultivation of microgreen plants on-board GreenCube. 🌱 🛰.
The first ever experiment of cultivation of a plant in Medium Earth Orbit has started yesterday morning, and we can’t wait to see the results! Send us a 💚 to wish good luck! Read more on the ‘s press release here: https://www.asi.it/2022/07/greencube-attivato-il-micro-orto-spaziale-a-6000-km-da-terra/