We're thrilled to announce that Ireland's first ever satellite, EIRSAT-1, is set to launch in November! 🚀✨ 🛰 Built by students from the University College Dublin University College Dublin UCD Centre for Space Research as part of ESA Fly Your Satellite! programme, the CubeSat will perform different

EIRSAT-1 Launch Update!! 🚀 Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 is going to be launching towards the end of November! We will be posting updates here for the coming weeks so stay tuned 🥳😁 #launch #cubesat #irelandsfirstsatellite

Check out this ESA Education article on the launch update!

Thanks so much to Dr. Liz Hays Elizabeth Hays for travelling from NASA Goddard this week. Liz was the external examiner for Rachel Dunwoody PhD viva. Thanks to Liz for an excellent @UCD_Physics seminar entitled "Innovations to unlock the high-energy gamma-ray sky". UCD Centre for Space Research

Absolutely thrilled to announce I successfully defended my PhD yesterday 🥳🛰️🎉

Yesterday we met the students behind Ireland's first satellite! ✨🛰🎉 💫 The EIRSAT-1 team from UCD Research University College Dublin came to ESA ESTEC, The Netherlands, to share with us the milestones of their journey towards space and celebrate together! 🎊 Among the guests, we had the

A satellite made by students will soon launch to space! 🚀 EIRSAT-1 is the first Irish satellite, developed by students from UCD Research University College Dublin under ESA's Fly Your Satellite! programme. Here are 5 facts about it! 🌟 #EIRSAT1 #IrishSpace #FlyYourSatellite

What's the worst that can happen when a team of #students finds themselves building the first #satellite of their country? 🛰️ Here are some clues... 🔥 Full story tomorrow! 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=mTrfaT… University College Dublin UCD Research EIRSAT-1 #EIRSAT1 #FlyYourSatellite #IrishSpace

Something exciting is coming out on Thursday! 🤫👀

So excited about this! Make your own 3D printed model of EIRSAT-1. Files and instruction are s available for download on our website. eirsat1.ie/3dprint

Tonight history will be made ✨ 🛰 Join us live from 19:00 CET/18:00 GMT to watch the launch of Ireland’s first ever satellite, EIRSAT-1! 🚀 Liftoff expected at 19:19 CET/18:19 GMT. 📺 ESA Web TV: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… 💻 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=l64-hE… #IrishSpace

Some of the team ready to watch the launch in California! 🚀 #EIRSAT1 #irelandsfirstsatellite #flyyoursatellite #launchday

Ireland is on its way to space! 🚀 EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first satellite, has successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Vandenberg, USA ✨ 🛰️ The satellite, designed and built by students from University College Dublin UCD Research under ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! Programme, will

Separation of satellite from rocket is confirmed. We are in space!

Exciting Update: EIRSAT-1 is deployed to orbit! 🚀🙌 🛰 The satellite has now started its space journey, and we are waiting for the first signal together with the team in California and at the EIRSAT-1 Mission Control Room at University College Dublin UCD Research! 📡 Join us in celebrating

💙💛 EIRSAT-1: Ireland successfully launches its first satellite into space 🎊 EIRSAT-1, a student-built satellite from University College Dublin, has been successfully launched into space, officially becoming Ireland's first-ever satellite. 🛰️ The miniature cube satellite, or

The drama continues to unfold here at University College Dublin. Just minutes after our broadcast, the team at @eirsat1 Mission Control got some exciting news. We weren’t live but the cameras kept rolling… Ladies and gentlemen, we have a mission! 🇮🇪☘️🛰 #FlyYourSatellite #IrelandinSpace

Let’s take a look back on the highlights of 2023, a momentous year for the EIRSAT-1 project! (1/24) UCD Research University College Dublin UCD Science UCD College of Engineering & Architecture European Space Agency ESA Education Josef Aschbacher Enterprise Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Storm Isha vs the ground station for #irelandsfirstsatellite ‼️

Our paper on the characterisation of the gamma-ray instrument on EIRSAT-1 , Ireland’s first satellite, was published in MDPI, the paper is available here: mdpi.com/2870720 #mdpiaerospace IrishResearch Sheila McBreen UCD Centre for Space Research UCD Science UCD Physics