Title :
Building a satellite over the Internet
Author :
Mehnen, L. ; Slowik, P. ; Rattay, F.
Author_Institution :
Inst. For Fundamentals & Theor. of Electr. Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria
Abstract :
Distributed in universities all across Europe, a several hundred students-strong team never collectively met in person, but between them they have built a space-ready satellite. SSETI Express is currently being integrated in an ESA clean-room for a planned launch and several are to come.
Keywords :
Internet; aerospace industry; artificial satellites; student experiments; Internet; SSETI Express; collaboration; launch; pan-European network; space-read satellite; students; Aerospace engineering; Communication system control; Control systems; Educational institutions; Europe; Internet; Satellite broadcasting; Space technology; Space vehicles; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2005. RAST 2005. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8977-8
DOI :
10.1109/RAST.2005.1512540
