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Project skBalloon
Abstract
The project skBalloon aims to construct and launch near-space balloons (Nobuyuki et al, 2004) connected to a pay-load being able to transport various instruments as CCD cameras, different detectors or commercial load to the earth's stratosphere in approximately 40 km height above the ground. The project intends mainly to raise awareness and interest about space sciences within broad public and remind them on importance of space exploration. Com-pared to many other countries Slovakia lag behind during last years in this research field with few exceptions. This should be changed in near future by a Slovakian coop-eration agreement with the European Space Agency and activities of the Slovak Organization for Space Activities.
... The satellite is a 1U cubesat and it was built essentially from scratch by SOSA. It was based on experiences from precursor projects of sending cubesat-like payloads and probes attached to meteorological balloons, called skBalloon, into the Earth's stratosphere [1]- [8]. They were designed in a modular fashion, and equipped with communication/navigation systems and sensor platforms. ...
The Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA) has been active in various types of space-related activities since its establishment in 2009. They include launching stratospheric balloons, the development of the first Slovak suborbital rocket ARDEA, a spaceflight simulator and many others. SOSA, together with the Žilina University in Žilina, the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, the Technical University Košice and a handful of private companies, have designed and created the first Slovak satellite skCUBE, which is due to be launched into space in 2017. The numerous unique technologies, which have been developed during the creation of skCUBE, are now being sold as products internationally. Recently, an effort to create a new space vision and strategy for Slovakia has been initiated by SOSA, together with several Slovak universities and international partners, including the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the ETH Zurich University. Their plan is to develop and launch a CubeSat fleet to detect gamma ray bursts from space. Part of this initiative is also the establishment of space incubators by SOSA across Slovakia to train and involve students directly space-related technologies.
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