Satellites



UNISAT-7

Launched on March 2021 from Baikonur cosmodrome 

Nano-satellites in-situ deployer and technology demonstrator and research

Mission Objectives

  • Release of 2 CubeSats and 3 PocketQubes
  • IOD / IOV tests of GAUSS and third-parties' payloads
  • Evaluation of new GAUSS subsystems in orbit
  • GAUSS EO dual payload (Narrow + Wide FOV optics)
  • Sat-to-Ground Optical links 
  • GAUSS GNSS Navigation 

UNISAT-6

Launched in 2014 from Dombarovsky cosmodrome


Realized for customer's equipment testing in space conditions


Mission Objectives

  • Release four CubeSats into orbit from Dnepr Launch vehicle
  • Test electronic hardware for microsatellites/structural components in orbit
  • Test UNISAT new space satellite bus
  • Test ground segment equipment and software
  • Test ground segment procedures
  • Earth Observation operations with camera
  • Test ground segment procedures for future Earth Observation satellites

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UNISAT-5

Launched in 2013 from Dombarovsky cosmodrome in Yasny. 

Project developed in collaboration with students and researchers of the Space Science Center of MSU (Morehead State University, KY, USA). 

UniSat-5 small spacecraft is a technology demonstrator and also an innovative launch platform built to comply with the CubeSat and PocketQube standards, this way also expanding access to Space, with the advantage of reducing the customers' costs related to the administrative preparation and the launch itself.

Mission Objectives

  • Release four CubeSats and four PocketCubes into orbit
  • IOD/IOV Technological Tests (CoverGlass, OBDH, ADCS)
  • First launch of CubeSats and PocketQubes from another nanosatellite
  • First launch of PocketQubes ever


The first six satellites

The first UNISAT satellites were developed by GAUSS laboratory when it was under the Aerospace Engineering School of University of Roma Sapienza. The UNISAT (UNIversity SATellite) program, as part of the space research projects of GAUSS Group, started in 1990 and ended in 2012 with the launch of UNICUBESAT-GG.

In 2012 the company G.A.U.S.S. Srl was founded and from there onwards it has continued launching satellites.