by m0xtd | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
This is going to be a busy weekend for Cuba’s recently founded “Grupo de Radioaficionados para Operaciones Satelitales” (GROS). Three different activities have been scheduled so far. * Friday night (20:30 EDT), Hector CO6CBF will be hosting a talk...
by m0xtd | Apr 11, 2012 | Daily Updates
“Bloomberg Risk Takers” profiles Elon Musk, the entrepreneur who helped create PayPal, built America’s first viable fully electric car company, started the USA’s biggest solar energy supplier, and through SpaceX may make commercial space travel a...
by m0xtd | Apr 10, 2012 | Daily Updates
Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hope to get one of their own CubeSats into space for the first time on the Operationally Unique Technologies Satellite (OUTSat) mission slated for launch, along with 10 other CubeSats, in August 2012. At 19:08 into...
by m0xtd | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
A paper by Mahmoud N. Mahmoud presents an innovative solution for small satellite antennas by integrating slot antennas and solar cells on the same panel to save small satellite surface real estate and to replace deployed wire antennas for certain operational...
by m0xtd | Apr 9, 2012 | Daily Updates
Senior design project to incorporate flexible solar panels in a CubeSat. The mechanism consists of a rack and gear spring loaded mechanism to release the rolled up solar panel. Watch Flexible Solar Panel Deployment for CubeSat [youtube...
