This author has yet to write their bio.Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud Jordi Portell contributed a whooping 10 entries.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched OPS-SAT on 18 December 2019 into a circular, polar orbit at 515 km altitude.OPS-SAT is a technology demonstration nanosatellite based on the cubesat standard. The satellite is only 30cm x 10cm x 10cm, but it brings powerful technology and instrumentation onboard, such as a fine Attitude Determination Control System, […]
The Gaia group at the University of Barcelona (IEEC – ICCUB), in cooperation with DAPCOM, has published an alternative copy of the bulk data files from Gaia EDR3 – the Early Data Release 3 from Gaia. Gaia EDR3 was published yesterday, 3rd December 2020. Besides the on-line catalogue, bulk CSV files were also made available […]
DAPCOM is offering student grants for the registration to the 4th Barcelona TechnoWeek, a one-week crash course on nanosatellites organized by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona given by international experts in the field. Each of these grants will cover 300€ (75%) of the registration fee. Please contact us at technoweek2019@icc.ub.edu before 30-May 17:00, […]
Here at DAPCOM you have some pages presenting or describing what is FAPEC, such as here, here, in some of these publications, or in this flyer. But to make it short: What is FAPEC? And which are its benefits? FAPEC is a data compression algorithm implemented as a software application. That is: we simply reduce the […]
The Gaia group at the Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC – ICCUB), in cooperation with DAPCOM, has published an alternative copy of the bulk data files from Gaia DR2 – the second data release from Gaia, where DAPCOM has made significant contributions. Gaia DR2 was published on 25 April 2018. Besides the on-line catalogue, bulk CSV […]
Today, DAPCOM has released the new version of our propietary, high-performance, professional, staged data compressor, FAPEC. This version, called FAPEC Archiver 19.0, is the first public version in the sense that anybody can request and download free decompression or evaluation licenses. It also includes some exciting improvements with respect to the previous release, such […]
On 25 April 2018 at 12:00 CEST, the second Gaia data release (Gaia DR2) was published. This is a major milestone in astronomy, leading to the largest and most precise multi-dimensional map of our Galaxy: it provides positions and brightness of 1.7 billion stars (also providing distances, proper motions and colours for 80% of these), […]
DAPCOM appeared yesterday on the TV program “Tinc una idea” (“I’ve got an idea”) of La 2 (around minute 21:55), in catalan. Watch it online
DAPCOM is about to release a new version of the FAPEC data compression software. Among its exciting new features we can find a new stage for tabulated text data, such as point clouds or CSV files. We have done some tests which reveal that FAPEC achieves the best compression ratios at a very low computing […]
