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The ISTSat-1 is a Portuguese nanosatellite developed by students and researchers of the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), that was launched into orbit on 9 July 2024, aboard the Ariane 6 maiden flight. The project is part of the European Space Agency's "Fly Your Satellite!" programme. It is the third Portuguese satellite in space, after the PoSAT-1 and the AEROS MH-1, and the first to have been entirely designed and built in Portugal.
The ISTSat-1 is a CubeSat developed to optimise and complement aircraft surveillance systems by demonstrating the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) aircraft detection technology in orbit. Its mission lifetime is expected to be 12 months.




See also


Instituto Superior Técnico
European Space Agency




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• ISTSat-1
• List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2024
• Instituto Superior Técnico
• Ariane flight VA262