by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
A successful demonstration of SkyCube’s 4D Systems JPEG UART camera talking to its computer processor board. The processor controls the camera and converts its raw image data to ASCII (text). It then sends the ASCII out one of its serial ports. The ASCII image...
by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
FSpace, the team of young engineers and students at the FPT University who developed the amateur radio F-1 CubeSat, report on the final launch preparations for the HTV-3 cargo vessel that will carry five CubeSats to the International Space Station (ISS). FSpace say...
by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
On September 22 it’s planned to send 1000 student projects built into PongSats (ping pong balls) to the edge of space. These experiments and projects are made by those in kindergarten, university professors, high school science classes and home schools kids....
by m0xtd | Jul 18, 2012 | Daily Updates
Southern Stars Group LLC, the company responsible for the popular SkySafari apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X, is thinking a little bigger with its next project. The publicly funded SkyCube is a miniature CubeSat satellite that will orbit the planet, transmitting...
by m0xtd | Jul 17, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dave Akerman M6RPI has used a Raspberry Pi computer board as the flight computer on a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) and sent back live images from near space at an altitude of almost 40 km. The balloon, appropriately called PIE1, was launched from Brightwalton, in...
