Monitoring light pollution from orbit

An educational 3U CubeSat project developed jointly by Sapienza University of Rome’s School of Aerospace Engineering and the Chilean Air Force (FACH).

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Main Objectives

Light Pollution Monitoring

Collecting optical data to help quantify artificial night-sky brightness from space.

Nanosatellite Platform

A compact spacecraft (~30 × 10 cm class) designed for rapid development and in-orbit environmental monitoring.

Innovative Power

Featuring a deployable solar panel on a flexible substrate based on novel photovoltaic technologies.

Amateur Radio

Providing an UHF digipeater for radio amateurs, plus an innovative LoRa-based digipeater experiment.

Payload

NyxSat carries a compact optical instrument dedicated to monitoring light pollution from orbit over targeted regions.

Chile (Santiago area) at night photographed from orbit, with city lights visible.

Optical Sensor

A miniaturized optical payload designed to measure night-sky brightness.

Targeted Observations

Focused acquisition over selected areas to support light-pollution assessment.