by m0xtd | Feb 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
By MrPromo Most of us take satellites for granted. Satellites are so far removed from our daily reality, they’re easy to forget about. Yet even from the unimaginable distance at which they orbit the earth, they allow us to use mobile phones, TV, radio and the...
by m0xtd | Feb 15, 2012 | Daily Updates
NASA has selected 33 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014. The proposed CubeSats come from universities across the country, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, NASA field centers and Department of Defense...
by m0xtd | Feb 14, 2012 | Daily Updates
Poland… CubeSat’s Journey Starts. PW-Sat was successfully deployed on orbit. This first Polish satellite, built by students, was successfully launched by the new European rocket Vega. This marks the end of the preparation stage for the PW-Sat project and...
by m0xtd | Feb 13, 2012 | Daily Updates
New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, was designed and built at NASA’s Glenn...
by m0xtd | Feb 12, 2012 | Daily Updates
Open Mission Control is open source, open access software for monitoring and controlling small spacecraft or balloon projects. The software is designed to provide an application and framework that can be adapted quickly and easily to support a variety of spacecraft...
