NTNU Small Satellite Lab is an initiative to strenghten the small satellite and space related activities at NTNU and make them more visible. 

At the lab, we have a group consisting of about ten PhD-students, two post.docs and many bachelor- and master students every semester. Physically, the lab consists of a concurrent design work space as well as an well-equiped ESD-safe area for development and testing of electronic and mechanical parts for payloads and platforms.

As of December 2020, the lab is part of the ESA_Labs@NTNU initiative.

Activities include 

• Projects supported by internal NTNU-funding, AMOS, Norwegian Research Council, Norwegian Space Agency, ESA, and others:
  • Small satellite mission with hyper spectral imager to support oceanographic applications (part of satellites HYPSO-1 and HYPSO-2).
  • Small satellite mission with software defined radio to provide better communication systems in the Arctic (part of the satellite HYPSO-2).
  • For more information on these projects as well as other projects where the members of the SmallSat lab contribute, see the project overview tab.
• The student satellite project Orbit, including the satellites SelfieSat-1 and FRAMSAT-1.

For the HYPSO-2 mission we have a project with the ESA PRODEX office, which is supporting the electrical and electro-optical development of the payload. This includes requirements development support, so that the NTNU team can learn more about how ESA projects are run.