MXL is excited to collaborate with Professor John Monnier, from the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy, who has secured a $10 million NASA grant to lead Astronomy’s inaugural satellite mission, STARI (STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry), scheduled for launch in 2029. This mission aims to validate a novel technique for studying exoplanets through Continue Reading »
MXL is headed to Indiana to view the total solar eclipse on Monday, 08 April 2024. More details are found here: https://nebp.mxl.space/.
May we all have clear skies!!
On Thursday, 29 December 2022, MXL’s latest cubesat, MARIO, was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) by Nanoracks and NASA. MARIO, also known as the Measurement of Actuator Response and Impedance on Orbit cubesat, is a 3U CubeSat collaboration between Continue Reading »
The Michigan eXploration Laboratory has begun research and development on its tenth mission, PHAROS (PHased ARray Optical Satellite), which is an optical orbit determination experiment utilizing light emitting diodes (LEDs). The name of the mission comes from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, named Pharos, which served Continue Reading »
With GRIFEX safely on its way to orbit (coverage on facebook), there is one quick fix we need Python 3 users to make to be able to decode GRIFEX beacons. Thanks to early installers, we have discovered that the TCP Serial Redirect script packaged with copies downloaded before today (1/31) may not function when run Continue Reading »