Hírek

The Hungarian RADCUBE space weather microsatellite (CubeSat) project reached its first major milestone, the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), in December 2017. In the frame of the PDR, phase B2 of the development was accomplished, in which the requirements corresponding to the RadMag instrument and the RADCUBE satellite mission and their development had to be finalized and the preliminary documentation for the manufacturing had to be prepared. The review of the documentation submitted was conducted by a board of space technology and space research experts set up by ESA. The co-location meeting was held between 11–12 December 2017 at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the Netherlands. ESA considered the meeting and the review successful; only some minor revisions and corrections were required in the documentation which had to be fulfilled and resubmitted by the end of January 2018. Following the PDR, the project can enter to phase C, by the end of which the final documentation of the manufacturing shall be prepared, in order to be ready for the manufacturing of the engineering and the flight model.

Group photo of the project participants at the ESA/ESTEC, from left to right: Dominik Nolbert (Astronika sp. z o.o.), Marta Tokarz (Astronika sp. z o.o.), Giovanni Santin (ESA), Balázs Zábori (MTA EK), Attila Hirn (MTA EK), Zsolt Várhegyi (C3S Kft.), Gábor Marosy (C3S Kft.), Johan Vennekens (ESA), Roger Walker (ESA), Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

The RadMag instrument based on the preliminary plans

Balázs Zábori
Project manager for RadMag development

Development of RadMag is realized in the frame of the ESA GSTP 6.3 RADCUBE programme (contract number: 4000120860/17/NL/GLC/as; sub-contract number: 20170630_RCU_MTA_EK_SubCo_i1.0).