NottASat

NottASat is a 1U CubeSat, with an educational focus. Designed in collaboration with local schools, it aims to encourage schools and amateur radio enthusiasts around the world to communicate with NottASat, and learn more about space and satellites in the process.

There will be several cameras on board NottASat, which will take photos of both Earth and Space from low-Earth orbit, and transmit these over amateur radio bands during scheduled campaigns. When not transmitting images, NottASat will serve as a packet digipeater, allowing anyone to relay messages via the spacecraft.

We are scheduled to launch NET 2026, with the spacecraft being controlled here at the University of Nottingham via our mission control centre.

JamSail

JamSail is a 3U CubeSat which will demonstrate two new technologies in low-Earth orbit: a flexible, low-cost GNSS interference detector, and a compact refractive solar sail. Both of these payloads are designed to test cutting-edge research being performed by the NottSpace group.

The GNSS payload will be capable of characterising and geolocating sources of radio interference on the E1/L1 and E5a/L5 bands, and the data can be used to target anti-interference actions in specific regions and aid in the design of future GNSS receivers to better mitigate specific types of interference.

The solar sail will be used to gradually raise the semi-major axis of JamSail over the span of the mission before being used to perform rapid passive deorbit near the end-of-life juncture. Additionally, self-stabilising optical elements within the sail will be used to demonstrate a novel method of performing attitude control.

Due to launch NET 2027, JamSail will be operational for several years in a sun-synchronous orbit before demonstrating passive de-orbiting capabilities..

VITA

The VITA (Visualising In-space Tx-Tl Astropharmaceuticals) mission is a teleoperated Astropharmaceutical cube-payload that is aiming to launch a biological experiment to the ICE Cubes Facility (ICF) on board the International Space Station (ISS).

Project VITA aims to enable on-site, on-demand production of therapeutics for long-duration human spaceflight, addressing the critical need for transportable medicines as outlined by the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) Global Exploration Roadmap (GER). The main scientific goal is to demonstrate efficient and effective cell-free synthesis in a compact and flexible platform.

Considering the possible increase in future human spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars, the success of VITA will be a turning point to further satisfy the demand for medical drugs during long duration missions.