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PoCat-LEKTRON, a project led by the NanoSat Lab of the UPC, is one of the missions selected in the fourth edition of the Fly Your Satellite! program. It is a space designed and managed by the Education Office of the European Space Agency (ESA) in close collaboration with universities in the space sector. The Objective Fly Your Satellite! program is to complement academic education and inspire, engage and better prepare university students for more effective entry into their future professions.
The fourth edition of the selection workshop of this program took place at ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands, from February 26 to 28. Eight finalist teams participated and the PaCat-LEKTRON project was one of those chosen.
PoCat-LEKTRON has been developed during the last seven semesters in the Advanced Engineering Project (PAE) subject of the undergraduate and master's studies at the Higher Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona (ETSETB) thanks to the support of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. PoCat-LEKTRON is a two-satellite PocketQube mission for radio frequency interference (RFI) monitoring. Cat-1 will search for RFI in global navigation systems for satellite and microwave radiometry bands. Cat-2 will look for spurious emissions from 5G services between 24 and 25 GHz, near the 23.8 GHz band used to measure atmospheric water vapor. The selected projects are ALEASAT, University of British Columbia in Canada, Da Vinci Satellite - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Red Pill - University of Padova, Italy.
The PoCat-LEKTRON team is mainly made up of ETSETB students. Artur Cot, Marc Corretgé and Edgar Hernández students of the Degree in Engineering of Telecommunications Technologies and Services; Júlia Alós, Roger Almirall, Arnau Dolz and Stefan Podaru, from the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering; and Marc Camus and Oscar Pavón, from the ETSETB Degree in Physics. The teachers who endorse them are Adriano Camps Carmona and Juan Ramon Castro
