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 »
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 »
With gratitude for our Japanese partners, we now have a recording of MCubed transmissions! We have a mp3 file that can be played with normal music players, or but yet with Audacity. One can see the sound waves in Audacity. I have included a screen shot as well below. If you listen closely, you can Continue Reading »
Tracking and communicating with CubeSats post launch is generally quite difficult, and this ELaNa3 launch is no exception. All CubeSats have been regularly heard but reliable commanding has not been achieved. This is expected, and as the satellite separate and position information grows, contacts will improve.
MCubed is beaconing reliably but transmissions are weak. The Continue Reading »