The Delfi-C3 team has access to the class 100,000 clean room of the faculty of aerospace engineering. This clean room will be used for the integration of the Delfi-C3 satellite. Numerous laboratories are available on the campus of Delft University of Technology for parts production, functional tests, breadboarding etc.

The clean room: 

The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science have set up a satellite ground station has been set up on the roof of the Electrical Engineering building, enabling students and staff to gain experience in satellite communications. The ground station is capable of autonomously tracking Low Earth Orbiting satellites operating in the VHF, UHF and S-band, and there is a setup to measure the Doppler shift on the received signals in order to extract the satellite’s orbital parameters. Furthermore, the equipment is used to make radio contacts via amateur satellites. Last, but not least, telemetry from these satellites can be decoded. The Delfi ground station will be used to command the Delfi-C3 satellite and to collect and redistribute all telemetry data from the distributed ground station network to the end users.

At this moment the ground station is used for receiving telemetry from other satellites.

The antenna:

Delfi Ground Station Webcam: http://delficam.ewi.tudelft.nl