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
Tesla Towing?
Fishing Line Rocket Science
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 »
Late night passes
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 »
Buckled up!
Tyler Rose and Dan Smith are headed to Morehead State University to vibe test the MCubed-2 EDU (engineering development unit). They plan to test MC2 to over 20+ g’s; that’s 20 times the force of gravity. This is preparation for our delivery of MC2 scheduled for late June.
Hold tight MC2!
Springmann in student competition again!
John Springmann, an MXL PhD student, was recently selected to compete in the Frank J. Reed Student Scholarship Competition at the SmallSat Conference this summer. This is his second time, and during the first, he won first place. The title of his paper is “On-Orbit Calibration of Photodiodes for Attitude Determination”. With these techniques, John is Continue Reading »