WISA Woodsat wooden satellite completed a successful stratospheric flight
(UPM, Helsinki, 14 June 2021 at 16:00 EEST) – WISA Woodsat wooden satellite completed a successful stratospheric flight on Saturday 12 June 2021, when a test model of the satellite was sent on a flight from Heureka Science Center at Vantaa, Finland. The main purpose of the test flight was to trial the systems of the satellite and especially assess the crucial boom camera functions.
The balloon carrying the test model took off at 13:25 and the flight lasted for 2 hours and 54 minutes. The satellite reached its maximum altitude in the upper atmosphere 31.2 km over the city of Mäntsälä. The