by m0xtd | May 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
The May 14, 2012 edition of the Metro newspaper carried a story by Ben Gilliland on pages 26-27 about CubeSats. Among those mentioned is the UK amateur radio Android smartphone CubeSat STRaND-1 which is being built by volunteers at the Surrey Space Centre (SSC). The...
by m0xtd | May 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
Go Erie reports on the work of students from Penn State Behrend who have been building part of a satellite for AMSAT. The report says: The trio speaks the language of supercapacitors and charges cycles, and they offer informed views on how circuit boards can shed...
by m0xtd | May 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Students working on the Aalto-1 CubeSat have released two new videos. In the first video Systems Engineer Antti Kestilä gives a brief introduction to the amateur radio VHF/UHF ground station on the roof of ELEC building at Aalto University Otaniemi campus. The second...
by m0xtd | May 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Time Magazine reports that unlike the massive NASA Kepler probe the next mission to search for new planets will be a tiny CubeSat called ExoplanetSat. Time says: What makes ExoplanetSat even more un-NASA-like is that it began as a class project — although admittedly,...
by m0xtd | May 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
An interview given to Tom Nardi by Gregor Jehle (Hadez) of the Stuttgart Hackerspace was recently published on The Powerbase site. In the interview Hadez discusses his ideas for distributed satellite ground station network and the creation of a Hackerspace Global...
