AcubeSAT
AcubeSAT is an open source project. Be sure to check our design files and much more at AcubeSAT’s GitLab page!
AcubeSAT is a multidisciplinary project by SpaceDot, a team led by ambitious students and researchers primarily from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It consists of a 3U CubeSat (dimensions of 340x100x100 mm) hosting a biological payload. The space mission is realized with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office. The team is part of the “Fly Your Satellite! 3” ESA programme.
I started working on the AcubeSAT project on January 2018. My work there began with studying and planning for the spacecraft’s orbit (mission analysis), before moving to the Attitude Determination & Control System where we designed the early architecture of the attitude control system for the spacecraft. Since February 2019, I worked as the Lead Systems Engineer for the project. After 4.5 years wonderful years, I stepped down from my duties in mid 2022 to obtain some industry experience. I returned in November 2024, answering a call from help from my teamates to pick up my systems engineering duties once again and to lead the team in charge of communications and operations.
This project has provided me a plethora of memories, friends, experiences and skills, which largely shaped who I am today. It is an enormous effort done mostly by undergraduate and graduate students. It is a story of underdogs: some random students fighting against all odds to send something into space. Probably one of the hardest things I ever had to do. But damn it is worth it.
