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Fri, 20 Mar, 2015 12:09:41 AM
FTimes - STT Report, Mar 20
The Aalto-1 satellite. Photo – Lehtikuva.
The country's first satellite, Aalto-1 will be launched later this year enabling Finland to join the league of countries which have their own satellite in the space.
 
The Aalto-1 is a small satellite and weighs just four kilograms. The satellite will have a circular orbit of 600 kilometres altitude.
 
The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority-FICORA announced that it has granted Aalto University a radio licence which entitles the use of transmissions from the Aalto-1 satellite.
 
The Aalto-1 satellite has been planned and designed mainly by university students.
 
Several new Finnish-developed technologies will be carried along with satellite on its launch. This includes a spectrometer device developed at Technical Research Centre of Finland-VTT used in environmental remote sensing.
 
According to Aalto University, an electrostatic plasma brake developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute as well as a radiation metre built by university students at Helsinki and Turku universities will also be on the satellite.
 
FICORA said the satellite frequency required worldwide approval because the transmission might interfere with other radio stations. The frequency registration process lasted 16 months, and the radio licence is valid for five years.
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