Public Information

Open calls¶

• The OPS-SAT 1 call for Space Cybersecurity Services: Test, validate and showcase space cybersecurity products for commercial purposes on OPS-SAT-1
• The ARTES Scylight OPS-SAT-2 call: Submit your idea for an OPS-SAT-2 Mission dedicated to optical and quantum communications

How to become an experimenter?¶

This platform guides experimenters through the software development and testing process, and supports on any upcoming questions or issues. In order to get full access, a registration is required. To become an experimenter, please fill-out the experimenter's form (PDF 413 KB) and send it to the OPS-SAT Experimenter Support Team via email - ops-sat-experimenter-support@esa.int. Only after approval of your application you can register on this community platform. For the complete process of registering and running an experiment, see How to become an experimenter

Current results and experiments¶

OPS-SAT: AI demo in low earth orbit
KP Labs' Machine Learning Algorithm Successfully Deployed on OPS-SAT

Publications¶

Here you can view an extensive list of publications.

Post-processed images acquired by OPS-SAT are published on a regular basis and can be found either on the SmartCam- Map or on Flickr.

Awards¶

We are proud to announce that in March 2023 the OPS-SAT MCT has officially been awarded the International SpaceOps 2023 Award for Outstanding Achievement. Pictures and further information can be found here.

OPS-SAT's firsts:¶

The spacecraft has accomplished many exciting firsts, here are some notable ones:

Operations¶

• first space mission dedicated to operational technology
• first nanosatellite directly owned and operated by ESA
• first in-orbit laboratory where the public can load and test software/firmware
• first ESA mission directly controllable in real-time over the internet by the public
• first mission to offer an on-board environment (NMF) that allows the easy development of apps for upload and execution, comparable to the concept of modern smartphones
• first ESA mission to reconfigure an in-orbit FPGA on a daily basis
• first mission commanded with Europe’s next-generation mission control system EGS-CC
• first in-orbit decoding and processing of ground based emergency beacons
• first ground-to-space API access of an in-orbit hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application

Artificial Intelligence¶

• first in-orbit neural network deployment for onboard AI
• first onboard machine learning for in-orbit training of supervised and unsupervised models
• first in-orbit AI model for FDIR
• first european deep learning processing of an image using an on-board FPGA
• first re-training of an on-board AI model with live in-flight data
• first on-board update of an ANN (artificial neural network) in space in an institutional mission
• first onboard Generative AI
• first re-use of pre-trained neural networks originally developed for terrestrial applications

Protocols and Standards¶

• first ESA mission to use CFDP (CCSDS File Delivery Protocol) operationally
• first ESA mission to use CCSDS Mission Operations Services (MO) on-board, on the space-to-ground link, and on ground
• first in-orbit implementation of a Spacewire protocol on top of an existing LVDS connection
• first mission to use the CCSDS Housekeeping Data Compression Standard 124.0-B-1

Cybersecurity¶

• first post-Quantum KEM-TLS cryptographic solution demonstrated in-space
• first in-orbit research platform for space cybersecurity

Noteworthy¶

• first stock market transaction successfully performed in space
• first in-orbit game of chess

3D models of OPS-SAT¶

Thank you to André Lofaldli and Gregor Gojkosek for designing these 3D models of our CubeSat.
The files are open to everyone and be found here

Read more at https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/OPS-SAT