YPSat-1 was a payload launched on the inaugural flight of the European rocket Ariane 6 in July 2024 in order to monitor the rocket's flight and operations with cameras and a magnetic field sensor.
History
YPSat-1 was developed as a volunteer project by a group of young professionals from the European Space Agency (ESA), and so its purpose was not only technological but also educational. The instrument, designed to stay attached to the rocket's second stage, successfully recorded images and videos from key phases of the flight, including fairing separation and deployment of satellites, and transmitted them to Earth. ESA is developing a similar project YPSat-2 for the first flight of its uncrewed spaceplane Space Rider in 2027.
↑Nogd, Suhail; De Sousa, Kevin; Reitu, Alexandra; Chatzistylianos, Alexis; Therkelsen, Magnus Oksbøl; Halé, Aymeric; Markowski, Dominik (2023). "Hardware and Software Design of YPSat's On-Board Computer and Data Handling". 2023 European Data Handling & Data Processing Conference (EDHPC). pp.1–11. doi:10.23919/EDHPC59100.2023.10396209. ISBN978-9-09-037924-1.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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