{"id":908,"date":"2025-02-14T17:58:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/?p=908"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:06:59","slug":"excite-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"\u00bb EXCITE Kick-Off! –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The EXCITE mission<\/a> has officially kicked off, marking the start of an EXCITing new CubeSat mission! For this complex activity, all three engineering departments of UniPi – DICI<\/a>, DII<\/a> and DESTEC<\/a> – joined forces under the coordination of the Space Systems Laboratory. Working under an ASI contract in the frame of the ALCOR programme<\/a>, the EXCITE team also includes four SMEs located in Tuscany: Aerospazio Tecnologie<\/a>, CRM Compositi<\/a>, IngeniArs<\/a>, MBI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

EXCITE is built to bring innovation into orbit through the in-orbit demonstration of five technologies, all equally central to the mission: a green monopropellant thruster based on hydrogen peroxide, a pulsed plasma thruster, a reconfigurable S-band antenna, an onboard demodulation concept for IoT communications, and pulsating heat pipes for advanced thermal control.<\/p>\n

The mission is currently baselined on a 12U platform. The reference profile targets a one-year operational campaign in a 500\u2013550 km sun-synchronous orbit, with operations coordinated from Pisa.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re genuinely happy to see EXCITE moving from planning to action. Next steps will focus on consolidating the design, defining interfaces, and turning the mission concept into a spacecraft ready for integration and flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EXCITE mission has officially kicked off, marking the start of an EXCITing new CubeSat mission! For this complex activity, all three engineering departments of UniPi – DICI, DII and DESTEC – joined forces under the coordination of the Space Systems Laboratory. Working under an ASI contract in the frame of the ALCOR programme, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-left-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacelab.unipi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}