The launch of the 5 cm PocketQube satellite “PROMETHEUS-1” will take place on January 14th, set to start at 6 p.m., at the School of Engineering of Universidade do Minho (EEUM), in Guimarães, Portugal.
The satellite was built at Universidade do Minho in collaboration with Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University, under the CMU Portugal’s Exploratory Research Project “PROMETHEUS – PocketQube Framework Designed for Research and Educational Access to Space“. The Principal Investigators of this project are Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Universidade do Minho, and Zachary Manchester, from Carnegie Mellon University.
João Magalhães, the National co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, will attend the event and represent the program.
The agenda of the event is:
6:00 pm: Opening Session
6:20 pm: PROMETHEUS-1 – Presentation
6:45 pm: SpaceX – Falcon 9, Launch (preview)*
7:00 pm: Portuguese Space Agency
7:15 pm: Universidade do Minho and Portuguese Air Force Protocol Signing
7:30 pm: Future Portuguese Satellites, N3O
7:45 pm: PROMETHEUS-1, deployment*
Closing
*due to the nature of the event, the times indicated (*) may be subject to some deviation.
More information here. The event will be streamed via YouTube.
