FEES SATELLITE LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY

After almost 3 years since the signing of the Cooperation Agreement with GP Advanced Projects srls (GPAP) from Italy, a FEES (Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite) was launched on Monday, 22th March 2021 at 06:07 UTC with the Soyuz Rocket, from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch has been delayed for so long due to the Launch Provider’s arrangments of other missions and the pandemic situation. FEES Satellite was launched with 37 more Satellites. Committee for Space Programme Development (CSPD) is a part of this mission with the task for the development and maintenance of Ground Station configurations and networks necessary for successful FEES telemetry receive. Because of this project, the Intercontinental Aerospace Command was established, but was used for the UNITY Program for the first time due to the FEES launch delay.

On 16th August 2018, we announced:
„Based on the Contract between GPAP (Italy) and CSPD (Serbia) from 4Q 2019, Serbia will officially have its mission in the Space by launching Italian FEES (Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite) in low Earth orbit (height: 575km, orbit: SSO, Soyuz / Russia)“, but due to such a long delay, the CSPD has focused its work on the implementation of other projects at the international level and one of the results is the launch of 3 UNITY Satellites on 28th February 2021 as part of the INDO-SERBIA Initiative, which is officially the first Space mission. The FEES Program is equally important for us because FEES Satellite, in addition to data and images important for analysis and further work, also transmits a sentence in Serbian language. Anyone who receives the FEES Satellite signal and decodes it will find out the content of the sentence. Since the transmitting is on amateur radio frequencies, receiving the message (sentence) is available to everyone. In this way we want to animate young researchers to involve themselves in communication with man-made objects in Space, to motivate them to expand their knowledge, skills and perspectives, to influence on their development (growing up) in a slightly different, but very interesting way.