The image shows the Danish coast as well as a portion of the Norwegian coastline. Credit: Aalto University, VTT and Aalto-1 team.
Â
The photograph was taken with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed hyperspectral camera’s secondary camera. Launched on the morning of 23 June from India, the Aalto-1 satellite’s first month in space has gone according to plan. ‘We have run checks on the majority of the satellite’s systems and found that the devices are fully functional,’ Aalto University’s Professor Jaan Praks, who is heading the satellite project, explains.
Â
‘We have also downloaded the first image sent by Aalto-1, which is also the first ever image taken from a Finnish satellite. It was taken while on orbit over Norway at an altitude of about 500 kilometres...
Recent Comments