A miniaturized satellite tv for pc developed by a staff of Turkish engineering college students has collected greater than 10,000 information gadgets over the previous yr.
The Grizu-263A was developed as Türkiye’s first PocketQube satellite tv for pc by the Grizu-263 Space Team from Bülent Ecevit University within the northern province of Zonguldak.
It was launched into area on Jan. 13, 2022, on U.S. aerospace firm SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral within the U.S. state of Florida.
“It stabilized within 13 days after launch. After its stabilization, healthy data was received,” Bülent Ekmekçi, the adviser of the Grizu-263 Space Team, informed reporters.
He stated they achieved their targets with the satellite tv for pc. “We say that now is the time for new satellites,” Ekmekci famous that the satellite tv for pc, which rotates within the polar orbit, completes its orbit in almost one and a half hours.
“This means it travels around the world 15 or 16 times daily. During these orbits, it moves over different geographical locations in the world. It produces data every 10 seconds. There are over 10,000 confirmed data (items),” he elaborated.
Established in 2016, the Grizu-263 staff goals to work on area and satellite tv for pc applied sciences. Backed by the nation’s main metal producer Erdemir, the group launched many initiatives that gained varied trophies in nationwide and worldwide contests.
Named after a firedamp (“grizu” in Turkish) explosion that killed 263 miners within the Kozlu district in 1992, the Grizu-263 labored on the PocketQube satellite tv for pc for 5 years.
A PocketQube is a miniaturized satellite tv for pc for area analysis that’s 5 cubic centimeters (0.31 cubic inches) and has a mass of not more than 250 grams.
Grizu-263A is designed to function in a low-Earth orbit of roughly 525 kilometers (326 miles) for 4 years and eight months. One of its missions is to take photographs of the Earth.
