Members of MXL as well as JPL volunteers (and MXL alumni) travelled this past weekend to Palo Alto, California to meet up with colleagues from SRI International at their 60-foot dish.
The team was able to listen for beacons from M-Cubed while by tracking the satellite’s passes with the dish.
We wish our friends and colleagues and those stopping by on the site a prosperous and healthy 2012! Happy new year!
2012 should be an exciting year for us at MXL. RAX-2 is doing well. We have downloaded four experiments, three from PFISR and one from RISR. We continue to optimize operation as we train Continue Reading »
M-Cubed continues to beacon reliably albiet very weakly. Our current theory is that M-Cubed is extremely close to E1P, potentially even docked. Based on tracking telemetry, we think the conjuction happened within one hour of deployment.
We continue to receive beacons world-wide. Testu san in Japan and his team are providing several beacons a day. Continue Reading »
Thanks to Eric Kirk and John Springmann for leading an effort to upgrade our antennas here at MXL. We just installed two new UHF yagi antennas that are phased together to increase gain. We also installed a new low noise amplifier to boost our signal to noise ratio. The antennas are shown below on top Continue Reading »
For those tracking MCubed, we are now tracking Object G. Our theory is that E1P and MCubed are very close, and E1P was tracked successfully yesterday with a high narrow beam antenna that was focused on Object G. MCubed transmits 9600 bps GMSK beacons at 437.485MHz. The doppler shift is approximately +- 8KHz during a Continue Reading »