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###What is OPS-SAT? OPS-SAT is a European Space Agency mission aiming to test novel concepts in a low cost orbiting experiment platform. It aims to break the vicious cycle of “has never flown, will never fly“ currently present in spacecraft engineering.

###What is onboard OPS-SAT? A bunch of commercial off the shelf components (COTS), such as:

  • High resolution camera
  • Multiple FPGA reconfigurable SoCs

###What is an FPGA?

###Why are FPGAs not used in space already?

###What does our experiment plan to test?