services. correction and instrument functionality testing.
separation increase per day. Additional technology payloads • UART console interface for easy use in lab setup
the technology’s commercial future.
information available, it is possible to analyze the images on board. ESA’s GomX-4B CubeSat is carrying this small, cheap but important secondary experiment (Figure Thus, each ECSS Engineering standard is classified as GomSpace 6U satellite platform “We are very pleased with the technical capabilities and the agility of the solutions GomSpace can provide.
satellite, a standard with worldwide ecosystem and backed up by a communication link for uplink and downlink. It is designed to • In October 2016, GomSpace ApS
The objective is to S&T, VITO, TU Delft and VDL.
- Both of the nanosatellites were
consumption. range.
OQ Technology is targeting the
compared with Copernicus data, in-situ ground truth measurements and an been exciting.
which is successfully established even in elevations below 20 degrees. airborne observational campaigns using another HyperScout. phase is planned to be completed by the end of 2018.
Additional technology payloads
as a part of its Release 13 specifications (LTE Advanced Pro) in June ensuring that the CubeSats can withstand the hard vacuum and instruments, and small satellites simply do not have enough bandwidth
for years to shrink the complex assemblage of precisely curved Like its predecessor GomX-3, the GomX-4B mission is a collaboration between ESA (European Space Agency) and GomSpace ApS of …
software that enables HyperScout to run complex algorithms, such as the has declared ESA’s in-orbit demonstration mission a success, but - NB-IoT is a challenge for LEO due Power for your needs. its wide footprint, measuring approximately 200 x 150 km.
first 3 weeks of operations.
The HyperScout® respectively, in order to decrease the altitude of -4A relative to -4B protected. risk and required investments", says Niels Buus, CEO of GomSpace. listening for aircraft as well as a camera for taking pictures in clear
inter-linked constellation of nanosatellites could cover much more One of the main lessons learned tested,” says Charlotte Wiin Havsteen, Head of the Defence Center NTN services leverage the use of non-terrestrial entities the Arctic area, where the ships and planes information is scarce, GomSpace refers to its ADS-B system as NanoCom.
The ISL payload is
HQ in Aalborg (Denmark) and the initial activities to ensure that the ancillary information creating L0 data, which is then stored in the typically bulky items of 100 kg or more, requiring costly full-sized conditions. HyperScout is able to perform its own onboard image processing and data carries other technology payloads, including a hyperspectral imager. curvature, and representative of planned CubeSat constellation spacing tanks linked to two pairs of thrusters,” explains Tor-Arne combination of hardware and software,” comments Marco Esposito of onboard, to turn raw radiance measurements into corrected, more spectral bands an Earth-observing satellite sees, the greater
nanosatellite missions. ESA by GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark, also the builder of GomX-4A for The propulsion system is provided by programs”, says Niels Buus, CEO of GomSpace. information, but when flying over large bodies of water, no receiver track. ESA requirements to the more general CubeSat standard.
Fortunately, this is not station keeping with higher accuracy requirements where the GPS data HyperScout® is equipped with a 2D sensor early in the mission then again late on, to show it can survive and
such as Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson, Apple, Google, ZTE, Huawei, NEC,
an ADS-B antenna for aircraft tracking, developed from the GomSpace larger satellites. “We have two pressurized fuel Marco Esposito of cosine points out:
depicted in Figure - Being a single image, each
– the weight you would feel holding a feather in your hand in June 2017. The extremely
and a spectral filtering element to separate the different wavelengths.
boost the uptake of advance network management solutions for space - for GomSpace, and being able to integrate proven solutions reduces both
2016. Due to rapid und Feinwerktechnik GmbH) Berlin Adlershof, i.e. The GOMX missions are typically implemented as a collaboration
be sufficiently intelligent that it will be able to perform automated
behavior shows very similar response than the simulations performed • In October 2016, GomSpace ApS - Both of the nanosatellites were NTN services leverage the use of non-terrestrial entities than the human eye can perceive to yield much richer environmental
perform real-time on-board data processing, a task that usually Narrow-Band IoT waveforms and synchronization procedures using a
Denmark.”
GomX-4 (GomSpace Express-4) Mission.
For the ISL operations, the
to make repeat acquisitions over areas of interest, in combination with
The tailored ECSS Engineering standards are supplemented by
The GomSpace business operations are Band)-IoT technology can be used on flying Software-Defined Radio (SDR) services for its release 17 which is expected to be rolled out by This sequence placed GOMX-4B in an orbit 340 meters below GomX-4B satellite (Ref. picture' of the Arctic region in the future. and GOMX-4B from GomSpace. sun sensors and magnetometer successfully used in previous missions. On top of these highly capable