Two Greek microsatellites, UPSat and DUTHSat, were successfully launched into space on Tuesday aboard the Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft.
The microsatellites, along with 26 more similar devices, are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) where they will be launched one by one into orbit to start their operation.
UPSat is the first microsatellite based on open-source software fully constructed in Greece, at the University of Patras and the Libre Space Foundation, as part of the European QB50 program. The other satellite DUTHSat was constructed at the University of Thrace.
The Cygnus cargo ship will be carrying about 3,463 kilos of food, supplies and science experiments to the station. The flight will deliver investigations that study magnetic cell culturing, crystal growth and atmospheric reentry.
The launch was cancelled numerous times due to technical problems of the rocket.
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