Final integration of the European Student Earth Orbiter (ESEO), with the TRITEL space radiation telescope on board, was successfully carried out during the summer by the Italian space industry company SITAEL.
This was followed by vibration tests in SITAEL’s own vibration test facility, which have been finished successfully by the end of September. The satellite is now at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) of ESA waiting for the final environmental tests (thermo-vacuum, electromagnetic compatibility and functional tests) to take place. If the final tests will be successful, the satellite can be delivered to the US at the end of October for a launch due in mid-November already this year! We are looking forward to further developments and the forthcoming launch!
Position of the ESEO-TRITEL experiment on the ESEO spacecraft (credits: ESA)
More details and, among others, a video footage of the vibration tests of the satellite can be seen on the corresponding ESA website.
Flight model of the ESEO satellite during vibration tests (credits: ESA)
Balázs Zábori
The present leader of the ESEO-TRITEL team
ESEO is an educational hand on project of the ESA Education Office, carried out as part of the ESA Academy programmes.
The activity of the University students’ teams was coordinated by SITAEL S.p.A. (Italy), System Prime and Integrator of the whole spacecraft platform.
The ESEO-TRITEL project is realized in the frame of PECS contract No. 4000112065 and the ESA PRODEX contract No. 4000124167.