Lithuanian Space Association

Coordinates: 54°41′11″N 25°17′5″E / 54.68639°N 25.28472°E / 54.68639; 25.28472

The Lithuanian Space Association or LSA (Lithuanian: Lietuvos kosmoso asociacija or LKA) is a space organisation based in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is one of the partners that created the first two Lithuanian satellites.

History

In 2007 several Lithuanian institutions and enterprises signed a co-operation agreement to establish the National Technology Platform of Space Technologies and after a year the Government of Lithuania assigned the Ministry of Education and Science to start negotiations on co-operation with the European Space Agency.

In 2009 the Lithuanian Space Association was officially founded.

In 2014, the LSA launched its first two satellites LitSat-1 and Lituanica SAT-1 via the NanoRacks SmallSat Deployment Program. They were deployed from the International Space Station on February 28, 2014. [1][2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Delfi
  2. ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1642.html
  3. ↑ http://amsat-uk.org/tag/litsat-1/

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