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NATIONAL SPACE CONFERENCE

Posted on 19/04/2022 | by Astrid G Theil

Torsdag d. 24. marts drog 4 studerende og en lektor fra Aarhus Universitet til
DTU for at deltage i National Space Conference. Her hørte de en hel del om hvad
fremtiden for Danmark i rummet bringer, hvilket var meget relevant for DISCOs
arbejde. Blandt andet handlede et af panelerne om hvordan man kan bruge
satellitter til at optimere vanding af marker. Dette bunder i nogle af de samme
klima mål som vi også har.

De studerende var så heldige at overvære annonceringen af Andreas Mogensens
næste mission, hvilket vi jo synes lyder super spændende! Da Andreas deltog var
vi også så heldige at han havde lidt tid til at snakke med os, og så fik vi også
taget et billede!

Sidst på dagen blev det sidste panel skippet til fordel for en rundtur på DTU
Space, givet af selve institutlederen. Vi fik her mødt nogle medstuderende fra
AAU! På rundvisningen så vi bl.a. deres kontrolrum, der får AUs kontrolrum til
at blegne i sammenligning, vi fik set deres vakuumkamre, hvor de tester nogle af
de ting de udvikler, og et af de rum, hvor de udvikler udstyr til fremtidige
missioner. Dette var en enormt spændende tur, og vi følte os som VIP gæster!

Tusind tak til DTU for en spændende dag!

De 4 studerende og Andreas Mogensen DTU Spaces kontrolrum Den dragt vi skulle
have på på DTU Space Andreas Mogensen



Posted in info, space, technology, Uncategorized


WORKSHOP DAG PÅ ITU

Posted on 22/03/2022 | by Astrid G Theil

English under the pictures

Mandag d. 14. marts var der workshop om jordstationer på ITU i København. Det
var en spændende dag, med deltagere fra ITU, AU og SDU. Udover alt det faglige
fik de studerende mulighed for endelig at mødes på tværs af universiteterne.
Dette har været tiltrængt, da på trods af at programmet har været i gang i over
et år, så har COVID-19 sat en stopper for meget fysik fremmøde.

Workshoppen gav mulighed for at arbejde på tværs af de forskellige universiteter
og institutter, hvilket de studerende udnyttes til fulde. Hos alle de
forskellige sessions i workshoppen stod de studerende sammen for at løse de
udfordringer der opstod i løbet af dagen.

De forskellige sessions havde til formål at få de studerende til bedre at forstå
hvordan man generelt kommunikerer med en satellit, hvordan antennerne bygges, og
hvilket software der skal til selve kommunikationen. Der var mange praktiske
elementer, da de studerende fik lov til selv at bygge en S-båndsparabol.
Derudover var der noget lidt mere ‘kodetungt’, da de arbejdede både med pointing
af en antenne og med at hente et signal ned, og afkode dette.

Alt i alt var det en super spændende og produktiv workshop.

De studerende er i gang Antenne Her arbejdes der med pointing S-båndsparabolen
bygges Julian byder velkommen Der lyttes til radiosignal og laves
vandfaldsdiagrammer IKEA-testen bliver taget Holderen til modtageren fastspændes
Afslutning og opsamling

Monday the 14th of March students from the DISCO team had a workshop on the ITU,
with the theme of groundstations. It was a really exiting day with participants
from ITU, AU and SDU! Other than the scientific cases that was presented, was it
also an opportunity for the students to chat and meet one another across
universities. This was much-needed as even though the program has been running
for over a year, the meeting in person has been limited by Covid-19.

During the workshop the opportunity to work together across universities and
instituts arose, this was something the students enjoyed! The different sessions
of the workshop called for cooperation, so the studentes solved the different
assignment and problems together.

The different sessions had the goal for the students to better understand how to
communicate with the satellites, how an antenna is build and what software is
used for the communication. There were practical elements, such as building a
S-band parabola antenna, but also more computational task, both when working
with the pointing of the antenna and how to download a signal and decode the
signal.

All in all it was a great day that the students and lecturers will look back at
fondly.

Posted in info, technology, Uncategorized


WELCOME TO THE DISCO PROJECT

Posted on 11/03/2021 | by discoadmin | Leave a Comment on Welcome to the DISCO
project

DISCO = Danish Student Cubesat Project

Press release March 2021

Danish students will launch their own satellite next summer

The Danish Students CubeSat Program DISCO will, in collaboration with the Danish
company Space Inventer, launch its first satellite with a Falcon-9 rocket from
the Kennedy Space Center next summer. The satellite will include a number of
smaller student experiments as well as serve as a communication station for
radio amateurs around the world.

The DISCO program has been created by Aalborg University, Aarhus University,
University of Southern Denmark, IT University, the House of Natural Science and
the Danish Industry Foundation as well as a number of space companies including
GomSpace and Space Inventor to give students the opportunity to work with
science and space technology in a practical way.

New possibilities

The launch of the first satellite has now been ordered from the company Momentus
to take place next summer with a Falcon-9 rocket. The satellite will be a
so-called CubeSat of 10x10x10 cm and with a mass of 1 kg. The satellite will
contain a series of small experiments that the students are currently working on
defining. One of the ideas is to investigate the possibility of using the same
frequency as a regular wireless network, i.e. 2.4 GHz, to communicate between
satellites. This could allow some of the subsequent DISCO satellites to send
much larger amounts of data down to Earth. The data could e.g. be a picture that
shows the development in the use of the Arctic regions as the ice around
Greenland disappears.

To be used for teaching in both the universities and in high schools

“It is quite wild that I now, as part of my studies, am sitting and developing a
communication unit for a satellite that I will help launching already next
year,” says Aleksander Brøndum Bille, who is currently doing a bachelor project
at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University. In his bachelor
project, Aleksander will make a prototype of the ground stations that will be
lent to Danish high schools after launch and thus give Danish high school
students the opportunity to talk to the DISCO satellites.

Mission patch competition

All satellite missions have a cool mission patch and so must DISCO. We are
therefore giving away an Astro Pi kit for the coolest mission patch for the
DISCO program. For inspiration try the google mission patch. Astro Pi is a small
Raspberry Pi computer developed by The Raspberry Pi Foundation in collaboration
with the European Space Agency ESA. The Astro Pi kit consists of a Raspberry Pi
3, a Sence HAT card with a number of built-in measuring instruments, a camera
and a power supply. The Astro Pi Kit enables you to develop experiments as they
could be performed on a CubeSat.

Proposals for a mission patch for the DISCO program must be uploaded to the
DISCO Facebook page before April 1 to enter the competition.
https://www.facebook.com/DanishStudentCubeSatProgram

For more information:

Christoffer Karoff (AU)

karoff_at_geo.au.dk





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DISCO 2 CROWD FUNDING

Posted on 07/01/2022 | by Julian Priest

DISCO2 is running a crowd funding campaign to support extra camera payloads in
it’s Arctic research mission..

“On DISCO 2, the second satellite in the DISCO project, we want to include 3
cameras, 2 optical and 1 infrared as well as momentum wheels to precisely
control the orientation and pointing of the satellite.

Once this satellite is launched in 2023, we will be able top photograph chosen
areas of Greenland’s East coast (and other places on Earth) and therefore
contribute to climate change research through our collaboration with the Arctic
Research Centre at Aarhus University.

For this ambitous project to become a reality, we need your help!

Visit our crowd funding campaign here.”

DISCO2 students









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GROUNDSTATION WORKSHOP – NEW DATE

Posted on 07/01/2022 | by Julian Priest

Date/Time
Date(s) - 14/03/2022
10:00 - 16:00

Location
Air Lab @ IT University of Copenhagen

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The DISCO project will launch 3 satellites into Low Earth Orbit over the next
three years. To communicate with the satellites we need to have ground stations
that manage the radio communications links for telemetry and data transfer.

The DISCO project is building both fixed ground stations at the participating
universities, as well as mobile ground stations that can be loaned to schools in
the program.

In this workshop we cover the basics of ground station operation and building
including demos and a chance to get hands on experience with a range of
equipment, both mobile and fixed equipment that will be later installed at ITU.

Topics include:

 * Antennas
 * Azimuth and Elevation rotators
 * Satellite observation prediction and tracking
 * Software Defined Radio
 * DIY and open source ground stations and Satnogs
 * Telemetry decoding
 * Satellite IOT and LoRa

Full program and speakers to be confirmed.

The workshop is open to all participants in the DISCO project, and places are
limited to 20.

The workshop is FREE, registration is essential, and travel expenses* will be
covered by the DISCO project.

The workshop is hosted by ITU’s DASYA group and takes place in the Air Lab, Lab
1, Ground floor at IT University.



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Contact Julian Priest [jucp at itu dot dk] for further info.

 

 

 

* (Economy travel by public transport or car is covered through participating
university expense reimbursement.)


BOOKINGS

Bookings are closed for this event.



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MISSION PATCH COMPETITION WINNER

Posted on 15/06/2021 | by Julian Priest | Leave a Comment on Mission Patch
Competition Winner
Marc Breiner Sørensens’s winning mission patch design




For the last months, the Danish Student CubeSat Program (DISCO) has been running
a competition for students to design the most awesome mission patch and we are
now very excited to announce the winner. The winning mission patch was created
by Marc Breiner Sørensen.

Marc’s winning mission patch shows some of the important aspects of the DISCO
project, such as the launch with the Falcon 9 rocket and a CubeSat. Another nice
twist to the design is that the Earth below is a giant disco ball. DISCO is a
collaboration between four Danish universities –  Aalborg University, Aarhus
University, University of Southern Denmark and the IT University of Copenhagen –
and their initials have also found their way to the mission patch.

 Last Friday, Marc, who studies physics and astronomy at Aarhus University,
received his award for the most awesome mission patch: an Astro Pi kit
consisting of a Raspberry Pi 3, a Sense HAT card with a number of built-in
measuring instruments, a camera and a power supply. Photo: CK

The first three CubeSats in DISCO are funded by the Danish Industry Foundation
and the first of these will be launched by Momentus next summer. The mission
patch designed by Marc is for the overall DISCO program. Later, it is foreseen
that the individual CubeSats in the DISCO program will get their own mission
patches in addition to the DISCO patch.



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