MXL team members and alumni attended the first Interplanetary CubeSat (iCubeSat) Workshop last week. The workshop took place at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was coordinated by students from MIT, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan.
As seen in the Michigan Record Update:
“U-M Engineering student Kathryn Luczek (right) shows a CubeSat (cube satellite) to Cora Marrett, deputy director of the National Science Foundation, at an exhibition of NSF research in Washington, D.C. Luczek was joined by Aaron Ridley, associate professor of atmospheric, oceanic Continue Reading »
K. Scott Tripp and So-Hee Kan took advantage of the spring time sunshine to work on calibrating the pointing of our antennas on FXB. In our haste during winter weather, we left them misaligned. We are headed in the right direction now!
We are headed to the SRI dish this week to establish S-band communication with RAX-2. Onboard RAX-2 is the MHX-2400, a radio capable of 115 kbps. Successful communication with RAX-2 over S-Band will increase our ability to downlink raw data in support of the science mission. If the dish is available for extended time, we Continue Reading »
Jessica Arlas from MXL presented her paper GPS Results and Position Accuracy of RAX Mission at the Regional AIAA Student Conference held today at the University of Michigan. She did a great job presenting and the talk was well-received by the audience. The judges liked her paper and presentation too and she won first place Continue Reading »