Today, March 15, 2025 (7:39 CET), the HERMES Pathfinder mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter-13 mission. The HERMES constellation, composed of six 3U CubeSat nanosatellites, was delivered into a Sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 510 km altitude, as planned in the mission […]
SpaceX has confirmed that Transporter 13 is scheduled for launch at 06:39:00 UTC on March 15, 2025 (7:39 AM Italian time, still March 14 in California time), from the Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), California, USA. The six HERMES Pathfinder 3U cubesats will be integrated into D-Orbit ION at the beginning of February 2025 at […]
The University of Melbourne, the Italian Space Agency, Australian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics have announced the successful scientific operations of the HERMES Pathfinder space telescope instrument on board the SpIRIT satellite. The space telescope earlier this year successfully collected light particles known as photons during a brief observation lasting about […]
The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal nanosatellite (SpIRIT for short), an Australian-Italian collaborative project, has successfully lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch marks a significant leap in space research and industry, particularly for Australia and Italy. The University of Melbourne and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) spearheaded the SpIRIT mission, Australia’s […]
The SpIRIT nanosatellite is beginning its journey to orbit and has left Australia for the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to be blasted into orbit 550km above the Earth on a Space X Falcon-9 rocket later this year. SpIRIT was developed by a co-funded consortium led by the Melbourne Space Laboratory at the University […]
Seven identical X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers have been fully tested and calibrated at FBK, IAAT/EKUT and INAF facilities. Although very compact and lightweight (1U=10×10-10cm, 1.6kg) these miniaturized instruments are quite advanced: they cover the very broad 3-1000 keV energy range with a resolution of about 300eV in the X-dray band and 6% in the gamma-ray […]
Three HERMES Pathfinder payloads have been integrated and tested at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and INAF laboratories: the PFM, FM2 and FM3. The integration of the payload PFM into the spacecraft is planned for next weeks at Politecnico di Milano laboratories. The HERMES Pathfinder “flat-sat” implemented at Politecnico di Milano Labs. The flat-sat connects and tests […]
The SpIRIT satellite (a 6U funded by the Australian Space Agency and managed by University of Melbourne, hosts among its payloads an X-ray/gamma ray spectrometer and an S band antenna and S-band tranceiver identical to those equipping the HERMES-SP/TP constellation, in the framework of and ASI-UoM Agreement. The HERMES X-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer FM has been […]
The HERMES ProtoFlight Model detector has been tested at the various stages of the integration of the SDDs and scintillators. In the first week of August 2021 the front-end electronics and the SDD detectors have been tested in FBK laboratories. In the third week of August the integration with scintillator crystals has been performed. The […]
Event link: https://atpi.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/5thcubesatindustrydays/website Agenda: https://atpi.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/5thcubesatindustrydays/website/Agenda/AgendaItemDetail?id=c7ce6578-ce86-4d7b-a380-25b0fae1ae75 Presenter: Dejan Gačnik – SkyLabs When: 2nd of July 2021, Virtual event CID – SkyLabs – NANOsky I Platform_v7 HERMES-SP slide – CID – SkyLabs – NANOsky I Platform_v7
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