The 5cm Pocketqube Satellite, Prometheus-1, developed at Universidade do Minho under the CMU Portugal project PROMETHEUS was featured in Sapo Tek, a Portuguese website about the latest technology advancements.
The satellite secured the space launch and command and control operations license from Anacom, the Portuguese regulatory authority for the communications sector.
The launch of the Prometheus-1 satellite is scheduled for November, from the Vanderberg spaceport, in the USA, hitching a ride on a Falcon 9 rocket, from Space X.
The Prometheus-1 satellite is the result of the Exploratory Research Project “PROMETHEUS – PocketQube Framework Designed for Research and Educational Access to Space“, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, within the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, in a consortium led by the University of Minho and in cooperation with Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University. The Principal Investigators of this project are Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Universidade do Minho, and Zachary Manchester, from Carnegie Mellon University.
Read the article here (in Portuguese).
Other CMU Portugal articles featuring Prometheus-1:
- Small Pocketqube Satellite developed under CMU Portugal project PROMETHEUS is ready for Space Launch
- In the media: PocketQube – small and low cost cubic satellites that can go into space.
Prometheus-1 In the media: Exame Informática, Expresso, Rádio Universitária do Minho.
