For the football fans out there, we are pulling a play from the playbook for the long pass, the long flight, the Hail Mary. Last week, our colleague, Prof Ben Longmier, launched an accidental “floater” balloon that travelled from Ann Arbor deep into Quebec. A Canadian park ranger recovered the balloon and it’s headed back Continue Reading »

The MXL team is prepping MCubed-2 for a vibration test scheduled for Monday, 14 January 2013. The purpose of the vibe is to validate the new MCubed-2 structure that will also serve as the foundation for future MXL CubeSats. A partially integrated M-Cubed is shown below.