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The Austrian Satellite PEGASUS – A Technical and Legal Success Story

  • Carsten Scharlemann
  • , Michael Taraba
  • , Cordula Steinkogler

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Abstract

On 23 June 2017 at 6 a.m. Austrian time, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C38 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, with a very precious cargo for Austrian standards: the Cube-Sat PEGASUS. This launch was the peak of more than three years of development of the Austrian nanosatellite by dozens of space enthusiasts. The small satellite was designed, manufactured and built by a consortium consisting of students and experts from the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (FHWN) and their R&D company FOTEC, a student team from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien SpaceTeam) and the Space Tech Group Austria (STG-A).
Original languageEnglish
Pages7-9
Number of pages3
Volume17
No.May 2018
Specialist publicationAustrian Space Law Newsletter
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103038 Space exploration

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