Name

FEES

Alternate Names

Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite

Satellite ID

FXHJ-9671-3244-3623-7704

NORAD ID

48082

Website

http://www.gpadvancedprojects.com/fees.html

Country of Origin

Italy

Launch Date

2021-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

Decay Date

2024-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

FEES (Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite) is a self funded, collaborative project by the Italian GP Advanced Projects aimed at developing a low cost platform for In Orbit Testing and Validation of Electronics components.

The whole satellite, including the electronics boards, is entirely design and manufactured within the project. The flight will be also the validation of this platform and components. The 0.3 kg satellite is built to a 0.3UCubeSat (10 cm × 10 cm × 3 cm) form factor. FEES Mission had three main goals. First of all, we aimed to obtain an in-orbit qualification of both an attitude determination architecture and a commercial GPS receiver. FEES also validated the exploitation of IRIDIUM global network to receive data, testing and supporting on-board traditional radio transmissions, which allowed us to manage the mission without a direct link to ground station and receiving early notifications. Finally, we meant to test a low cost UHF receivers with advanced modulation protocols.