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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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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 universes and in the 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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