News The site has been (finally) updated with mission status.
The Launch was a success!!!

Welcome to the SSETI Express @ FEUP Webpage

This website contains information about the launch and early operations phase of the first pan-European satellite conceived entirely by university students - the SSETI Express.

SSETI stands for Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative. This is an initiative from the Education Department of the European Space Agency (ESA) and had its start in 2001. Its main objective is to impress upon university students the motivation for space exploration and technology, by offering them the possibility to design, build, launch and operate micro-satellites. Micro-satellites characterize themselves by weighing a maximum of 120 kg and their maximum dimensions being 600 × 600 × 810 mm.

For SSETI Express worked about one hundred students, distributed by 13 European universities. Each group of students was in charge of designing and building a specific subsystem of the satellite.

The Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and the students from the Mechanical Engineering Department have played a very important roll for the final outcome off this project. Students of Mechanical Engineering performed all the structural analysis and configuration study of the spacecraft during the last 3 years, making use of Finite Element Models and the precious help of Prof. Pedro Camanho as well as ESA and industry's experts.