Two MXL alumni were recently profiled by the University of Michigan College of Engineering for their roles in the space industry: Kiril “Kiko” Dontchev, who worked on the first M-Cubed and RAX-1, is now a power systems engineer at SpaceX, where he designs and tests lithium ion batteries. Eric Gustafson, an alumnus of Continue Reading »
MXL Presenting @ the AIAA/Utah State University SmallSat Conference
MXL director Prof. James Cutler and several student team members are at the annual SmallSat conference in Logan, Utah this week. The lab will be participating in the university poster session, which will be on view throughout the conference. John Springmann will be presenting “Initial Flight Results of the RAX-2 Satellite,” a paper Continue Reading »
MXL Presents CubeSat Research at Caltech Keck Institute for Space Studies
On July 16-20, MXL faculty and students participated in a small satellite workshop hosted by Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies. The workshop, titled “Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science,” started off with a one-day lecture series featuring research and development efforts from both academia and industry. The workshop was designed to bring together Continue Reading »
Colorado to Launch with Modified RAX Software
We’re excited to announce that our colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be using modified RAX beacon decoding software on their newest CubeSat, the Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE). Ben Kempke, chief engineer of the RAX mission, adapted our beacon decoding software so that it can work with CSSWE packets. Continue Reading »