{"id":2255,"date":"2025-11-26T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/acubesat-clears-thermal-vacuum-testing-and-sets-course-for-manufacturing-readiness-review\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:21:00","slug":"acubesat-clears-thermal-vacuum-testing-and-sets-course-for-manufacturing-readiness-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/acubesat-clears-thermal-vacuum-testing-and-sets-course-for-manufacturing-readiness-review\/","title":{"rendered":"AcubeSAT clears Thermal-Vacuum testing and sets course for Manufacturing Readiness Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/11\/the_spacedot_team_in_the_cubesat_support_facility\/26994514-1-eng-GB\/The_SpaceDot_team_in_the_CubeSat_Support_Facility_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Group picture of the Space Dot Team during the Thermal-Vacuum testing of AcubeSAT.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\/Meet_the_team_AcubeSAT\" target=\"_blank\">AcubeSAT<\/a>\u00a0CubeSat\u00a0(from the\u00a0SpaceDot\u00a0team, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) has successfully completed a\u00a0Thermal-Vacuum (TVAC)\u00a0test campaign at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\/CubeSat_Support_Facility\" target=\"_blank\">ESA\u2019s\u00a0CubeSat Support Facility (CSF)<\/a>.\u00a0Conducted over\u00a0two weeks, the campaign verified that their CubeSat\u2019s\u00a0payload\u00a0can\u00a0operate\u00a0in a space-like environment and, in parallel,\u00a0the team has also\u00a0qualified the satellite\u2019s On-Board Computer (OBC) and Attitude Determination &amp; Control Subsystem (ADCS). Only\u00a0minor functional adjustments\u00a0will be\u00a0required\u00a0to\u00a0close the campaign. With environmental qualification complete,\u00a0SpaceDot\u00a0is now\u00a0one step\u00a0closer\u00a0to\u00a0their\u00a0Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This TVAC milestone follows the earlier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esa%20-%20shaking%20up%20science\/\" target=\"_blank\">vibration qualification\u00a0and\u00a0leak\u00a0test<\/a>\u00a0reported by ESA, which prepared the payload EQM for full space-environment testing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0AcubeSAT\u00a0CubeSat\u00a0(from the\u00a0SpaceDot\u00a0team, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) has successfully completed a\u00a0Thermal-Vacuum (TVAC)\u00a0test campaign at\u00a0ESA\u2019s\u00a0CubeSat Support Facility (CSF).\u00a0Conducted over\u00a0two weeks, the campaign verified that their CubeSat\u2019s\u00a0payload\u00a0can\u00a0operate\u00a0in a space-like environment and, in parallel,\u00a0the team has also\u00a0qualified the satellite\u2019s On-Board Computer (OBC) and Attitude Determination &amp; Control Subsystem (ADCS). Only\u00a0minor functional adjustments\u00a0will be\u00a0required\u00a0to\u00a0close the campaign. With environmental qualification complete,\u00a0SpaceDot\u00a0is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}