As part of the international BRITE Mission the two Austrian satellite shave been transmitting valuable data on very bright stars for three years. In the
TUGSAT-1/BRITE-Austria and UniBRITE, Austria's first satellites in space, celebrate their third birthday. "Astronomy & Astrophysics" publishes three papers with the ESA-missions latest results. Photographic material available for download at the end of the text. . "BRITE stands for BRIght Target Explorer. These cube-shaped nanosatellites are 20 cm long and 8 kg heavy and carry small space telescopes," explains Werner W. Weiss, UniBRITE project leader from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Vienna. In the meantime a total of five nanosats are orbiting the Earth at the height of about 800 kilometres.
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