First-MOVE is a CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment. The 1U CubeSat has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar cell. First-MOVE also carries a CCD camera.
Despite the narrow bandwidth data channel high quality pictures can be taken and transfered to Earth using a specially developed algorithm which filters the pictures due to content (Space, Earth horizon), compresses them, fragments them to small data packages and generates thumbnails for preview.
First-MOVE completed integration in April 2012.
Watch First-MOVE Flap Panel Deployment Test
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJrpQ0cgTVg]
Watch First-MOVE Complete Integration
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxh9H_zekSw]