by m0xtd | Jul 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
The HTV-3 cargo vessel carrying five CubeSats blasted off on an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center on Saturday, July 21 at 02:06 UT on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). On July 27 it is scheduled to arrive at the ISS where it will be...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
Radio amateur Ali Guarneros Luna KJ6TVO features in an SJSU Today article. She is part of an SJSU student team that worked on the cube satellite TechEdSat, one of five CubeSats being transported to the International Space Station. Ali was born in Mexico City and now...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
This video covers the basics of satellite tracking using the free Orbitron software. Watch Introduction to satellite tracking and listening part 1 of 2 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrhmFD6o758] Watch Introduction to satellite tracking and listening part 2...
by m0xtd | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
‘CubeSat’ will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than ‘northern lights’ NSF’s Therese Moretto Jorgensen explains what CubeSats tell us about the atmosphere. Credit: National Science...
by Peter Goodhall | Jul 20, 2012 | Daily Updates
‘CubeSat’ will help solve mysteries of terrestrial gamma ray flashes, 1,000 times more powerful than ‘northern lights’ NSF’s Therese Moretto Jorgensen explains what CubeSats tell us about the atmosphere. Credit: National Science...
by m0xtd | Jul 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
DynaCube is a 1U CubeSat intended to take pictures of the earth that also carries temperature sensors and radiation detectors. It plans to have a VHF CW beacon and a separate VHF 1200 bps GMSK telemetry downlink. It is intended to launch from Baikonur into a Sun...
by m0xtd | Jul 19, 2012 | Daily Updates
Built by students at the University of Southern California (USC) Aeneas is a 3U CubeSat planned to launch August 2, 2012 from the Vandenburg Air Force Base on an Atlas-5 rocket into a 880 x 450 km 60.4 degree inclination orbit. It aims to prove the concept of WiFi...
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....
