The team at the Space Institute have worked incredibly hard to assemble and integrate TPA-1, the first kiwi made 3U cubesat. The TPA-1 satellite has 3 payloads: a drag sail for deorbiting, a deployable boom aka “the selfie stick” and Earth Observation cameras.TPA-1 was packaged and shipped to the Netherlands today, where it will be…Continue Reading NZ’s first 3U CubeSat, TPA-1 ships to Netherlands
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Deployable Nano-Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar for Monitoring NZ’s EEZ
New Zealand is responsible for vast maritime areas that present a enormous economic opportunity, however, controlling our exclusive zone is currently infeasible without a high-level real-time view of on-the-water activity and sea conditions. The required data could be provided by a cluster of satellites, in the CubeSat format. A current project funded by the National…Continue Reading Deployable Nano-Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar for Monitoring NZ’s EEZ