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Xatcobeo
Satellite

Xatcobeo, originally known as Dieste, is a project to build the first Galician artificial satellite developed by Agrupación Estratéxica Aeroespacial (currently Alén Space) of the University of Vigo and leadered by Fernando Aguado in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) and with the support of the Galician government-owned corporation Retegal. The project was presented to the European Space Agency for its launch in the inaugural flight of the Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Centre, in Kourou (French Guiana). Its life will be between 6 and 12 months, and its cost will be around 1.2 million euros, being 50% funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigación of Spain, 25% by Retegal and in the last 25% jointly by the University of Vigo and INTA.

It is a Cubesat-type satellite and its objective will be to do research related with communications and with solar power in satellites.

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See also

  • Spaceflight portal

References

  1. "La Agencia Espacial Europea pondrá en órbita el primer satélite gallego". El Progreso. June 5, 2008. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719172141/http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/12054.html ↩

  2. "A Axencia Espacial Europea aproba o proxecto elaborado pola Universidade e INTA para desenvolver un satélite de uso científico". Diario da Universidade de Vigo. June 5, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2009. http://duvi.uvigo.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1218&Itemid=2 ↩

  3. "O satélite galego chamarase 'Xatcobeo'". A NOSA TERRA DIARIO. June 19, 2008. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005013547/http://www.anosaterra.org/nova/o-satlite-galego-chamarase-xatcobeo-.html ↩

  4. "La Agencia Espacial Europea pondrá en órbita el primer satélite gallego". El Progreso. June 5, 2008. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719172141/http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/12054.html ↩

  5. Xatcobeo section in LIA Archived September 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, march 11, 2010 http://lia.ei.uvigo.es/projects/xatcobeo/index.html ↩

  6. INTA in press Archived October 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, november 22, 2009 http://www.inta.es/noticiaintaenprensa.aspx?Id=95129 ↩

  7. La Región Archived January 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, november 22, 2009 http://www.laregion.es/noticia.php?id=109817 ↩