To receive Masat-1, the location and timing of it’s appearance must be known. The location and timing is not easy to determine, as the satellite is a 10 cm cube orbiting 300-1400 km from the Earth’s surface. The task is the following: to determine the orbit of our satellite. The task is ...
We still enthusiastically track each pass of the satellite. On the 21st of March we have downloaded two images altogether with some results of a long-term measurement required for the set-up of the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS). Masat-1 is all OK. The “darkest” day has...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated on the team’s successes in his letter to our team leader, András Gschwindt on 8 March 2012. As our readers might recall, March 8 also happens to be the day when Masat-1 made its first space photos of the Earth. Therefore, this day has an even great...
On 21 and 22 March 2012 (Wednesday, Thursday) we will switch the satellite to silent mode again as a repetition of the last silent mode data aquisition. In silent mode, all RF transmission of the satellite is turned off, the satellite is only on reception. After these experiments regular telemetry t...
Masat-1, the First Hungarian Satellite made history again when it captured the first satellite space photographs on 8 March 2012 This first photo shows the southern section of the African continent. The next photos were made of Australia and Antarctica, in a quality and quantity unprecedented in the...
