Peach Mountain Maintenance and Testing Underway
MXL students and Aerospace Engineering staff are spending this week at the Peach Mountain dish performing annual dish maintenance and prepping for upcoming proof of concept testing. The maintenance includes greasing all the bearings and gears. A software-defined radio and UHF antenna will then be installed in the feedhorn in order to test the ability Continue Reading »
CSSWE Doppler Trends
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 »