MCubed-2 and its sister satellite, IPEX which was developed at Cal Poly, both appeared in the NASA 2014 Science Plan. See page 98 of the full science plan. CubeSats are mentioned throughout the plan as a tool for education, technology development, and potentially science. The Heliophysics Research Program describes the Diversify, Real- ize, Integrate, Continue Reading »
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MXL at the CubeSat Workshop
MXL is at the spring CubeSat workshop at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Kathryn Luczek is presenting a poster on QB50. We are also part of several presentations, see below:
- The Successful Operation of MCubed/COVE-2 — Paula Pingree @ JPL
- Shields-1, A CubeSat With a Radiation Shielding Research Payload — Dr. Larry Thomsen @
MC2 Ops Update – Photo of So Cal
MC2 continues to be successfully tasked to operate COVE and perform experiments. We recently ran our 25th successful COVE run on pic6, a picture taken by MC2 on 09 February 2014 over northern Michigan. A succesful run means that the COVE payload processed the image, and that the data produced by the algorithm matched the data Continue Reading »
RAX Attitude Determination Results
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.
Strato Flight – 16 March 2014
Project Strato flew their team’s 10th flight this past weekend with a successful launch and recovery. Unfortunately, we learned a hard lesson about proper radio packet configuration. We apologize to the APRS users for our excessive network traffic during the flight on 16 March 2014.
Our balloon flew two trackers, a Kenwood TH-D72 handheld radio Continue Reading »