📋 Tender Overview
The Czech satellite VZLUSAT-1 has been successfully in operation in Earths orbit for three years where it verifies the capabilities of the technologies used in the space environment. It has tripled the average lifespan of CubeSat satellites which also include VZLUSAT-1. At the end of this year its successor VZLUSAT-2 will launch on SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Florida. Even in this case the satellite will come from the workshop of the Research and Testing Aviation Institute VZL.The satellite orbits the Earth at an altitude of approximately 495 kilometers and serves mainly as a so-called technological demonstrator. It therefore verifies how the materials components and other technologies used will cope with the inhospitable environment outside the Earths atmosphere. The average lifespan of CubeSats is 1.1 years. Three years of functional operation of VZLUSAT-1 in orbit thus prove that Czech technologies have proven themselves in space.VZLUSAT-1 also carries several scientific instruments that send measured data down to Earth where they are received by the ground station in Pilsen. These are a miniaturized X-ray telescope testing of materials for shielding cosmic radiation and a device for measuring the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. The Research and Testing Aviation Institute VZL is already preparing the successor to VZLUSAT-2 which should take off at the end of this year on the Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Florida.
