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Project status

Our first prototype of minimal CubeSat core (28.05.2005)

Project has ended at 2014 because goal was not reached. But our ground station is still in operation.

We discussed about vision, overlooked design of some foreign nanostats, put together group of enthusiasts, separated us into working groups and outlined basic characteristic of our nanosatellite (CubeSat class) in the year 2004. Subsequently (2006) we specified details of project and decided for concept of smart independent modules connected by serial bus. We were developing and constructing prototypes of main modules (structure, power, radio, camera, tether, solar sail, magnetometer, ADCS), but we failed to complete all parts.

We have completed our ground station at November 2010. The station is currently in basic test operation. Operational is the automatic trackiing of selected satellites and receiving telemetry in the 435-438 MHz band (since April 2011 also in the 144-146 MHz band), in the FMN format, 1k2 AFSK. The station will be gradually expanded.

We attended a 2nd European CubeSat workshop at ESTEC (Netherlands) in January 2009.


Web news and updates:
09.11.2012 - Results (new version of Utility for T100 device, V1.09)
18.09.2011 - Ground station / Packets database
10.02.2011 - Results (Utility for T100 device)
12.12.2010 - Photogallery (czCube ground station)
14.10.2010 - Ground station czCube and GES-ELECTRONICS
14.02.2009 - Photogallery (images from meeting at 7.2.2009)