PicPot

PicPot [Politecnico del Torino]

PicPot (Piccolo Cubo del Politecnico del Torino) is a small technology satellite built by the Polytechnic University of Torino. It has a cube-structure of 15 cm side length.

The objects of the PicPot project are:

• Students gaining experience of construction, production and control of automatic spacecraft;
• photographing the northern hemisphere of the Earth;
• technological tests under space conditions of silicic solar photoelectric elements intended for the use on Earth;
• testing the efficiency of litievo-polymeric batteries under the space conditions;
• testing a brushless direct-current motor;
• checking communication channels.

The launch was not successful, as the Dnepr-1 failed 86 sec after launch.