University of Northumbria at Newcastle
T23/0048 - ALIGN Laser CubeSat UKSA NSIP Phase 3
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This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.
The University is completing the build of three 6U CubeSats as part of a technology demonstration mission funded by the UK Space Agency.
This mission will see the launch of two 6U CubeSats into a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit (expected 450 km altitude) in 2026/7.
The third 6U CubeSat is our reference model.
The payload being developed for assembly integration and testing within the 6U CubeSat bus is a 2U laser communications terminal.
The mission goal will be to demonstrate inter-satellite laser optical communications across a range of link lengths up to 1000 km and at least 1 Gbps data transfer rates between the 6U CubeSats.
There will be a requirement for a number of ground-passes for frequent data downlink of the experimental results log files and the mission is anticipated to last for 1 year, including a deorbit final stage.
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The University is completing the build
The University is completing the build of three 6U CubeSats as part of a technology demonstration mission funded by the UK Space Agency.
The payload being developed for assembly integration
The payload being developed for assembly integration and testing within the 6U CubeSat bus is a 2U laser communications terminal.
The mission goal will be to demonstrate
The mission goal will be to demonstrate inter-satellite laser optical communications across a range of link lengths up to 1000 km and at least 1 Gbps data transfer rates between the 6U CubeSats.
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