HUN-REN Research Centre For Astronomy and Earth Sciences
The HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences is dedicated to advancing our understanding of astronomy and Earth sciences, including geography, geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. Our core activities include conducting basic (exploratory) research, developing innovative scientific instruments and methods, and publishing our findings for practical application.
We are committed to carrying out theoretical investigations, performing essential observatory, laboratory, and field measurements, and maintaining existing observatories while establishing new ones as needed.
Relevance to the space industry
- GRBAlpha
The GRBAlpha is the first Hungarian-led satellite (developed in Hungarian-Japanese-Slovak cooperation) specifically designed for astrophysical research.In terms of size, this small satellite is identical to the first entirely Hungarian-built satellite, Masat-1: within the approximately 10 × 10 × 11 cm small “cube” are the power supply, the radio transceiver module, the onboard computer, a GPS receiver for precise time measurement, and the detector itself.
- GRBBeta
The 2U-sized GRBBeta nanosatellite, having dimensions of 100 x 100 x 227mm and a mass around 2.5kg provides packet radio services in the VHF and UHF amateur bands as well as an experimental S-band downlink module. In addition, GRBBeta contains experimental payloads, including an upgraded version of the gamma-ray detector subsystem and attitude determination and control systems along with technologies allowing onboard firmware upgrade (that also have flight heritage on GRBAlpha). This latter feature also allows both the fine-tuning and the complete upgrade of the radio FEC parameters on-the-fly.
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MTA CSFK (Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont)
Space industry contact person: László Kiss
Email: kiss.laszlo@csfk.hun-ren.hu