- Vibration table
- Vacuum chamber
- Helmholtz coils
- Satellite tracking station in VHF-UHF bands ans band S located in the Montsec Observatory
The facilities of the UPC NanoSat Lab of the CommSensLab specific research center, at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, are designed to carry out environmental qualification tests (vibrations, and vacuum and thermal cycling) in a clean environment (Clean Room, class 8) to incorporate payloads, subsystems and small satellites (Cubesats of up to 6 units).
Outside the clean room, there are Helmholtz coils and an air pad to carry out altitude control system tests.
In this singular multidisciplinary environment, the Nanosat Lab teaches telecommunications and electronic engineering students who implement what is known as the ‘conceive, design, implement and operate’ (CDIO) initiative.
The laboratory’s activities cover, among other items, the design and manufacture of satellite systems that include: antennas, communication systems, implementation of communication protocols, collecting and managing solar energy, high efficiency power supply, software engineering and programming, computers and fixed microcontrollers, satellite, payloads, design methods for reliable, verifiable systems, and the mission’s principles of analysis.