This past week, MCubed-2 along with all the other CubeSats on the GEMSat launch successfully passed the acceptance vibe test for the NPSCul system — the multiple P-POD deployment system from the Naval Post Graduate School and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Thanks to Cal Poly and NPS for their support on the integration.  And Continue Reading »

We’re headed to deep space with the help of Prof. Ben Longmier and you! Check out our Kickstarter project, CAT: A Thruster for Interplanetary CubeSats.  The goal is to develop a thruster that will propel a 5kg satellite into deep space, far beyond Earth orbit, at 1/1000th the cost of previous missions.  We have a Continue Reading »

Dear Elon, MXL students recently discovered the Telsa S can tow.  See picture below. Would you like to donate one to MXL to support our balloon launch campaigns?

Thanks,

The MXL Team — proud supplier of engineers to SpaceX

Fishing line comes in handy for our brand of rocket science…building small satellites.  Lucas Mason and Josh Weiss are working diligently below to tie down antennas for the MCubed satellite.  They are using simple nylon fishing line and thread to secure the antenna to the sides of the satellite as required by the launch integration folks at Continue Reading »

The ground station team, led by Srinagesh Sharma and Matthew Chase, have been working some late night passes.  They recently installed some high powered output amplifiers in the UHF and VHF bands to boost our transmit capability of our FXB ground station.  Here is a photo of a late pass from last night with a Continue Reading »