The SSETI Express (Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative - Express)
mission is an educational mission that shall deploy CUBESAT pico-satellites developed by
universities, take pictures of Earth, act as a test-bed and technology demonstration for
hardware of the complementary project: the European Student Earth Orbiter, and function as
an radio transponder for the rest of its mission duration.
To accomplish SSETI Express's mission statement, the following objectives have
been developed:
- To demonstrate the successful implementation of this pan-European Educational initiative
and therefore encourage, motivate and challenge students to improve their education and
literacy in the field of space research and exploration,
- To carry as passengers, and subsequently deploy, up to three educational CUBESAT
pico-satellites,
Three cubesats were deployed by SSETI Express. They will be deployed from a T-Pod developed by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory, Toronto
- XI-V from Japan, University of Tokyo
- UWE 1 from Germany, University of Würzburg
- Ncube 2 from Norway, Andøya Rocket Range
SSETI Express was launched in October 2005 onboard a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle from the Plesetsk
Cosmodrome.
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