BRITE ground station  
in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre

[dot]The official opening of the ground station for communication with satellites of BRITE's constellation took place in Warsaw on 6 December 2011.

[dot]The work on the installation and preparation of ground software took the next year.

ground station

[dot]In the first months of 2012, the station was used to control and receive data from the satellite PW-SAT designed and manufactured by students of Warsaw University of Technology.

[dot]Two Austrian BRITE satellites were launched on 25 February 2013. Then our ground station establishes communications with both satellites.

[dot]The most important day so far in the work on the station was November 21, 2013 when the first Polish scientific satellite BRITE-PL "Lem" was launched and when the data was received during its first flight over Europe.

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last update 7 February 2014
 

 
 
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