The satellite of the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences has fulfilled its task. A follow-up model is already being worked on. Its launch into space is scheduled for 2025 at the latest.
The successful space mission “Pegasus” of the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences ended, as it were, with fireworks. After years of sending data from space to the university’s ground station, the satellite now burned up as planned when it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
The satellite orbited the Earth sixteen times a day
‘Pegasus’ was launched into orbit from the Indian Space Center in Sriharikota in 2017 and has been orbiting the Earth sixteen times a day since then. He was available to the students of the Aerospace Engineering program for their training. “They learned how to communicate with a satellite, how to operate it and how to analyze problems in orbit from the ground,” explains training director Carsten Scharlemann: “With ‘Pegasus’ the college has a new horizon enter.” working on a follow-up satellite.
Source: Krone
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