UK WUSAT2 CubeSat to launch 2015

A team of University of Warwick engineering students are designing and building a CubeSat WUSAT2 which will be launched 100 km into space in 2015. The third and fourth-year engineering students beat off stiff competition from undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD teams...

FUNcube Data Warehouse: Fitter Messages

The FUNcube team have made a few changes to the way Fitter Messages are handled / displayed on the Data Warehouse: – Only the last 7 days of fitter messages are displayed (list is truncated at midnight UT, each day) – To help the command stations, the...

Updated FUNcube-1 Dashboard Software

The FUNcube Team are pleased to announce the latest version of the Dashboard Software. Version 820 can be downloaded from http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/funcube-telemetry-dashboard/ The major change in Version v820 centres on improved decoding routines which...

QB50 CubeSat Launch Contract Signed

The 7th QB50 workshop opened on Tuesday with the announcement that on Monday, January 27, 2014, the Von Karman Institute of Belgium signed the launch contract with Alcantara Cyclone Space for the launch of the QB50 constellation of 50 2U CubeSats into a 350 km low...