by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video provides a short description of the Canada-Norway Student Sounding Rocket (CaNoRock) exchange program and plans for the student CaNoSat sub-orbital CubeSats. CaNoRock is a partnership between the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Saskatchewan, the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
SpinSat comprises a 19 inch diameter sphere, with a mass of 55 kg and 4 antennas equal distance around the equator. It is intended to be a tumbling satellite with single axis momentum wheel and multiple micro-thrusters. It aims to test new technology micro-thrusters...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
PhoneSat v2 is a technology demonstration mission intended to increase the functional capabilities of PhoneSat v1 and demonstrate complete satellite functionally in a low cost package. The satellite is built around the Nexus S smartphone which will be running the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Monday, November 26 at 12:10 CET Swedish Radio broadcast a show about the Maker Movement that included an item on Hojun Song DS1SBO and the OSSI CubeSat that is planned to launch on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket into a 575 km 63° inclination orbit in April 2013. The item...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Friday, November 16, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, Elon Musk was the guest of honor at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London to present a lecture entitled ‘SpaceX and the future of space exploration’. The packed lecture was also notable in that...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
While radio amateurs use CubeSats for communications Glasgow based Alba Space is planning to use them for Space Burials. Alba Space say they aim to use CubeSats to carry cremated ashes into Space and their longer term aims include helping open access to Space. The...