Results of the analysis of the RAX-1 and RAX-2 attitude determination system have recently been published.
John C. Springmann, James W. Cutler, Flight results of a low-cost attitude determination system, Acta Astronautica, Volume 99, June–July 2014, Pages 201-214, ISSN 0094-5765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.02.026.
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 »
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 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 »
On July 16-20, MXL faculty and students participated in a small satellite workshop hosted by Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies. The workshop, titled “Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science,” started off with a one-day lecture series featuring research and development efforts from both academia and industry. The workshop was designed to bring together Continue Reading »