{"id":25,"date":"2020-06-10T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:45:18","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-641 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Immagine1-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Immagine1-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Immagine1-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Immagine1.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applied research on microsatellites is carried out at SpaceLab at system and subsystem level. Recent activities include:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">design of the EXCITE 12U CubeSat mission, recently carried out in collaboration with several research teams of the Engineering departments of UniPi and a group of high-tech SMEs. EXCITE is intended to perform In Orbit Demonstration \/ In Orbit Validation (IOD\/IOV) of five technologies: a &#8220;green&#8221; monopropellant thruster by UniPi\/DICI; Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT) by Aerospazio Tecnologie; Pulsating Heat Pipes by UniPi\/DESTEC; a commercial GPU-based demodulator for Internet-of-Things signal collection from orbit by MBI; and a re-configurable S-Band antenna integrated in the spacecraft structure by UniPi\/DII;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>development of deployable, low mass, low cost solar panels for microsatellites based on carbon-fibre substrate;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>implementation and refinement of an integrated trajectory-onboard energy management simulator for microsatellites;<\/li>\r\n\t<li>design and implementation of an algorithm for the design of trajectories enabling multiple asteroid visits with a single small satellite launch.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Applied research on microsatellites is carried out at SpaceLab at system and subsystem level. Recent activities include: design of the EXCITE 12U CubeSat mission, recently carried out in collaboration with several research teams of the Engineering departments of UniPi and a group of high-tech SMEs. EXCITE is intended to perform In Orbit Demonstration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-left-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}