MXL has been helping support CubeSats from the OutSat L36 launch on September 13. The first days of any mission are critical, a fact which is especially true for CubeSats. Shortly after release, the Joint Space Operations Command (JSpOC) publishes tracking data for each one, but they have no way of telling which one is Continue Reading »
Models and Tools to Evaluate Space Communication Network Capacity
We have published a paper on our ability to model ground station network capacity entitled Models and Tools to Evaluate Space Communication Network Capacity. The paper is available from IEEE and the abstract is given below.
Continue Reading »This paper introduces models and tools to assess the communication capacity for highly dynamic and geographically diverse ground
RAX Profiled by The Space Review
RAX-2 was recently featured on the blog “The Space Review,” which covers recent developments in the SmallSat community. The article discussed numerous CubeSat missions that presented at the SmallSat conference at Utah State University this past August.
According to the article: “CubeSats are already providing good scientific data for researchers. The University of Michigan’s Radio Continue Reading »
MXL Alumni Profiled by the College of Engineering
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 »