New Series of Space Images From now on KvarkenSpaceEco will publish a series of informative images of Kvarken area taken from space. These images will be published once a month in Mega magazine on the Finnish side of Kvarken under the headline “Kvarken Space Conversations”. With these images and short articles we would like to…
We already use space-based data daily Our project researcher Antti Kinnunen writes today in the local newspaper how common it it to use space-based data. We don’t usually think from where comes the data to our online maps or direct multinational television broadcasts. Read Antti’s text from here.
Designing the payload of KvarkenSat In the spring 2022, one of our project’s goals will fulfill when we will launch our own cube satellite, KvarkenSat to the sky. However, there are quite many things to plan before the D-day. The team of our project’s work package 3 has been discussing the payload of KvarkenSat many…
The interest in New Space Economy grows in Finland A delegation of KvarkenSpaceEco project attended the Finnish Satellite Workshop, the biggest annual New Space meeting in Finland. This year the event was arranged together with the Finnish Remote Sensing Club and it contained Finnish Remote Sensing Days. The Finnish Satellite Workshop brings together space tech…
KvarkenSat Ground Station was designed and presented as a part of Master’s Thesis Kannan Selvan, a member of KvarkenSpaceEco team, presented today his master’s thesis at University of Vaasa. His master’s thesis included designing and building a ground station to receive data from KvarkenSat and other open satellites. Heidi Kuusniemi, the supervising professor was very…
Our team won a part of WeSeaChallenge! A team, which consisted of postgraduate students from University of Vaasa and KvarkenSpaceEco project, won one category in WeSeaChallenge in Turku on Wednesday, December the 4th. WeSeaChallenge was an open idea competition organized by BalticSatApps project and Turku Science Park. WeSeaChallenge looked for ideas where satellite data together…