Entries by Jordi Portell

Release of FAPEC Archiver 23.0 and WinFAPEC 1.0

We have just released the new version of our professional data compression software, FAPEC Archiver 23.0. For the first time, we are also including a graphical front-end: WinFAPEC 1.0, for Microsoft Windows. As in previous versions, the software can be downloaded from our website, at this link. Without any cost, it will provide you free […]

Release of FAPEC Archiver 22.0 – codename “Merganser”

  Today, DAPCOM has released the new version of our propietary, high-performance, professional, staged data compressor: FAPEC Archiver 22.0 (codename Merganser). Anybody can request and download free evaluation licenses, and for the first time, free perpetual decompressors can be downloaded. It includes several exciting features: New professional stage to compress Kongsberg’s MBES data, including their […]

First Earth Observation images compressed by the new FAPEC-CILLIC algorithm onboard ESA’s OPS-SAT

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, […]

Gaia EDR3 bulk catalogue available in FAPEC format

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 […]

Grants to attend Barcelona TechnoWeek on nanosatellites

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, […]

What is FAPEC?

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 […]

Gaia DR2 bulk catalogue available in FAPEC format

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 […]

Release of FAPEC Archiver 19.0

  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 […]

Gaia Data Release 2 and DAPCOM

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), […]