PW-SAT2: POLISH CUBESAT PROJECT
summary
University-built 2U CubeSat carries a student-designed deorbit sail that packs to ~7 cm and unfurls to 2x2 m sail to increase atmospheric drag and cut orbital lifetime from ~15 years to about a year; deployment tests run in Bremen’s drop tower with high‑speed cameras and record a deployment <1 second. Satellite also flies a three‑sensor sun‑sensor (≈1° accuracy), magnetorquer attitude control, two cameras, and ham‑radio telemetry supported by a Scala ground‑station app and modem tools.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43The team
- 0:58PW-Sat2 in numbers
- 2:29PW-Sat - first Polish satellite (2012)
- 3:26Space Debris
- 5:29Main payload of PW-Sata2
- 6:56Test campaign at Drop Tower ZARM Bremen
- 8:05Secondary payload
- 10:02PW-Sat2 Subsystems
- 11:32Integration and test campaign
- 12:58Mission plan
- 13:49Mission Animation
- 14:46PW-Sata2 Partners
- 15:28Communication with the satellite
- 17:23Radio amateurs community
- 28:07Thank you for your attention
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