{"id":2277,"date":"2025-12-04T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/teams-selected-for-the-march-2026-test-window\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:45:00","slug":"teams-selected-for-the-march-2026-test-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/teams-selected-for-the-march-2026-test-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams selected for the March 2026 test window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/12\/kick-off_meeting_for_the_march_2026_test_window_of_fly_your_satellite!_test_opportunities_programme\/27009491-1-eng-GB\/Kick-off_meeting_for_the_March_2026_test_window_of_Fly_Your_Satellite!_Test_Opportunities_programme_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Students from TRACE and GIFTS along with CubeSat Support Facility test operators attending the Test Opportunities kick-off meeting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following a call for proposals launched in September 2025, TRACE team from TU Darmstadt Space Technology and GIFTS team from University College Dublin have been selected for the March 2026 test window of ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\/Fly_Your_Satellite%21_Test_Opportunities\" target=\"_blank\">Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme<\/a>. The proposal evaluation and selection were carried out by Fly Your Satellite! experts and CubeSat Support Facility operators. The teams are now ready to dive into environmental testing and eventually testing their device at ESA facilities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a call for proposals launched in September 2025, TRACE team from TU Darmstadt Space Technology and GIFTS team from University College Dublin have been selected for the March 2026 test window of ESA&#8217;s Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme. The proposal evaluation and selection were carried out by Fly Your Satellite! experts and CubeSat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","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\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}