Ad Astra: Launch of EIRSAT-1
Watch live as Ireland goes to space, for the first time, with the launch of EIRSAT-1. Built by students at @universitycollegedublin under the guidance of ESA’s Education Office, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat carrying three experiments, including a novel gamma ray detector that will study some of the most luminous explosions in the universe. Irish broadcaster Rick O’Shea, with guests from ESA and the EIRSAT-1 team, will take viewers through the mission’s development and major launch milestones including liftoff, separation and acquisition of signal, from outside the EIRSAT-1 Mission Control Room in Dublin. Níl aon satailít mar do shatailít féin! [There’s no satellite like your own satellite!]
Timestaps of the replay:
00:00 – 18:25 – Introduction
18:26 – 29:19 – Liftoff
00:29:20 – 01:16:28 – Post launch programme
01:16:29 – 02:20:00 – Stay tuned
02:20:01 – 02:49:30 – Documentaries about EIRSAT-1
02:49:31 – 02:55:05 – Stay tuned
02:55:06 – 03:25:29 – Acquisition of signal programme
Learn more about EIRSAT-1: https://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Meet_the_team_EIRSAT-1
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
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Huge congratulations to the UCD School of Physics and its Centre for Space Research, and the many people that have been behind the bold and challenging step of designing, building, testing, and launching Ireland's first space mission. Really wonderful news!
Oh no payload images because, among other things, it carries a korean spy satellite.
I'm a few days late viewing this (happened on my dad's birthday, imagine that, he named me after a rocket lol) but I admit as a Californian I did not know we had a Space Force Base locally. Oops 😂