Thermal assessment of CLIMB -
a novel CubeSat mission to the Van Allen Belt

The CubeSat CLIMB is a project of University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (FHWN). Like FHWN’s first project PEGASUS [1], also CLIMB is foremost an educational project. There are many students involved in hands-on work on various subsystems with guidance from the professors and industry professionals.

Kaarel Repän (Author)
Thermal engineer
Recent MSc graduate from the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt. Involved with the team since late 2017. Through master’s thesis built the thermal engineering model for CLIMB and conducted several analyses.

Dr Carsten Scharlemann (Co-Author)
head of the cubesat programme
Head of the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Austria and project manager of the mission CLIMB.