{"id":67409,"date":"2017-08-28T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nanoavionics-to-build-earth-observation-cubesat-for-rupercorp\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T09:45:21","slug":"nanoavionics-to-build-earth-observation-cubesat-for-rupercorp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nanoavionics-to-build-earth-observation-cubesat-for-rupercorp\/","title":{"rendered":"NanoAvionics to Build Earth Observation CubeSat for Rupercorp"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NanoAvionics<\/strong> has signed a turnkey mission contract with <strong>Rupercorp<\/strong>, based in Argentina, to supply its Earth Observation (EO) demonstration mission with a 2U CubeSat as a precursor for a succeeding constellation. The CubeSat will launch during the first half of 2018. The mission is regarded as a technology demonstration for the commercial constellation based on NanoAvionics\u2019 M6P platform with \u201cgreen\u201d chemical propulsion system EPSS C1K, to be launched starting in late 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For the scope of this project, NanoAvionics will provide a 2U platform containing an Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) system along with critical payload systems to be tested using CubeSat bus, which was flight proven during the LituanicaSat 2 mission. The company is also responsible for the mission software and payload integration, testing and qualification in its new facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the demonstrator is to take initial low-resolution sample pictures of agricultural activities over certain territories; hence, the satellite tasking is one of the most critical functions of the mission. According to Rupercorp, the remote-sensing imagery gathered by the subsequent constellation will have a wide range of uses \u2014 from agriculture management and crops health monitoring to tracking biodiversity trends in certain areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NanoAvionics has signed a turnkey mission contract with Rupercorp, based in Argentina, to supply its Earth Observation (EO) demonstration mission with a 2U CubeSat as a precursor for a succeeding constellation. The CubeSat will launch during the first half of 2018. The mission is regarded as a technology demonstration for the commercial constellation based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}