June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...faulty software or radiation effects would be acceptable. No idea, no matter how outside-thebox, will be rejected a priori. The OPS-SAT objective is to offer a low-cost laboratory flying in a low-Earth orbit that will be made available for authorised...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
...because of the standardised CCSDS Mission Operations services architecture.In the future, this tool will be used by the OPS-SAT experimenters to operate their app in space from a simple web browser at home or in the office. Standardised, reusable and...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... at Cranfield University and in 2019 founded Exodus Orbitals. Shortly thereafter, his company was invited to participate in ESA’s OPS-SAT mission, launched in December 2019. Under his leadership, the company was accepted into the Moonshot business...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... Italian space agency ASI’s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation constellation, along with three ‘CubeSats’, including ESA’s OPS-SAT – the world’s first free-for-use, in-orbit testbed for new software, applications and techniques in satellite...
