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EYESAT

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CNES
Date prévue
18/12/2019
Satellite's size
3U
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EYESAT
Presentation

EyeSat was the pilot project for CNES’s JANUS program (Jeunes en Apprentissage pour la réalisation de Nanosatellites au sein de Universités et des écoles d’Enseignement Supérieur). This program enables students to develop and send CubeSats into space. In this context, EyeSat has been developed by students from French engineering schools (ISAE-Supaero, ENAC, ESTACA) on internships at CNES and students from the Cachan IUT.
Its scientific mission was to measure zodiacal light. This light comes from the Sun’s reflection off small particles on the ecliptic plane, the plane on which the planets of the solar system move. These fine dust particles are important for astronomical observation, as they are potentially hindering.
U-Space was born out of this project and accompanied Eyesat during its 4 years of operation (a timeframe that exceeded expectations and was surprisingly long for a project developed by students).
The satellite burned up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere on November 19, 2023.

Solutions offered

Educational project

This project enabled the rapid increase of its stakeholders’ skills, who were just discovering the world of cubesats.

Creating a team

The team assembled pre-figured U-Space’s future management team and enabled them to forge links.

Setting up a control center

The satellite was operated during the 4 years following its launch. This has enabled U-Space to gain maturity in its operations.

Obtained Results

The EyeSat mission was a major milestone in the development of our expertise in small satellite-based space systems engineering. The engineering methods used in its design served as a methodological foundation, which was then refined for the subsequent development of the NESS mission.
For our initial team, supported by CNES at every stage of development, this project represented our first comprehensive experience covering the entire life cycle of an optical observation satellite: from design and development to in-flight operations. The latter were successfully extended for four years.

Testimonials

Parce que chaque mission commence par une vision partagée, nos clients témoignent de l’aventure U-Space.

“Travailler avec U-Space a été une expérience remarquable. Leur compréhension fine de nos enjeux, leur flexibilité et leur maîtrise technique ont été clés dans la réussite de notre mission orbitale.”

Annette Black Marketing Coordinator

“U-Space a su allier rigueur technologique et esprit d’innovation pour donner vie à notre projet. Leur équipe a été présente à chaque étape, avec une disponibilité et un professionnalisme rares.”

Ronald Richards President of Sales