{"id":2737,"date":"2026-05-20T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/da-vinci-team-puts-satellite-payloads-to-the-test\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:40:00","slug":"da-vinci-team-puts-satellite-payloads-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/da-vinci-team-puts-satellite-payloads-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci team puts satellite payloads to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/05\/da_vinci_team_in_the_cubesat_support_facility_at_esa_esec\/27287249-1-eng-GB\/Da_Vinci_team_in_the_CubeSat_Support_Facility_at_ESA_ESEC_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Da Vinci team in the CubeSat Support Facility at ESA ESEC\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\" text-left\">A student-built satellite mission has taken\u00a0an important step\u00a0toward flight readiness. From 13 to 24 April 2026, the <b>Da Vinci<\/b>\u00a0team from\u00a0<b>TU Delft<\/b>, the Netherlands,\u00a0has carried out a vibration environmental test campaign of its educational payloads, <b>DICE<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Bitflip<\/b>, at ESA\u2019s\u00a0<b>CubeSat Support Facility<\/b>\u00a0in ESA ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium. Conducted as part of ESA\u2019s <b>Fly Your Satellite! 4 programme<\/b>, the campaign provided the team with hands-on experience in a professional test environment while advancing the verification of both payloads.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student-built satellite mission has taken\u00a0an important step\u00a0toward flight readiness. From 13 to 24 April 2026, the Da Vinci\u00a0team from\u00a0TU Delft, the Netherlands,\u00a0has carried out a vibration environmental test campaign of its educational payloads, DICE\u00a0and\u00a0Bitflip, at ESA\u2019s\u00a0CubeSat Support Facility\u00a0in ESA ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium. Conducted as part of ESA\u2019s Fly Your Satellite! 4 programme, the campaign provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","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\/2737","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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}