Last week members of MXL and students from the AOSS MEng program attended JPL to work through missions which were proposed and selected through the UMich-JPL Design Challenge. This was a fantastic opportunity to hang out in JPL’s Left Field and learn from experienced and energetic JPL scientists and engineers (captured in the image below). Continue Reading »
MXL Members Participate in JPL Workshop
Prof. Cutler and three members of MXL, Sara Spangelo, John Springmann, and Allison Craddock, participated in a workshop at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) last week.
The general scope of the workshop was to identify a wide variety of science applications that take advantage of the flexibility and low cost of small satellites, especially on Continue Reading »
Listening to M-Cubed
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.
Happy New Year from MXL!
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 »
MCubed Update – 14 Dec 2011
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 »