MCubed-2 temperatures have been growing hotter. Internal temperatures are approaching 40C. We have reduced downlinks and payload operations to prevent over heating. The plot below explains why.
MCubed-2 is in a season of full sun as the plot above shows. It was generated Continue Reading »
Here is a “great” shot of our command and control antenna used for MCubed-2 operations. Fortunately, the antenna cabling was repaired last week when it was just cold, and not cold and snowy. Despite the snow and cold, MCubed-2 check out is progressing. More details on that later.
The Aerospace Department here at the University of Michigan is celebrating it’s 100 year anniversary. For 100 years, we have pushed the state of the art in aerospace engineering and trained some of the best students in the world.
The Department will be hosting a dessert on 15 January 2014 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm Continue Reading »
Thanks to Mike and Colin for their feedback on MC2 tracking. Their best tracking element for MC2 is JSpOC-710, object J. See the TLE below.
JSpOC-710 1 90710U 13072J 13348.62284903 +.00013465 +00000-0 +13156-2 0 00148 2 90710 120.4918 256.4723 0298653 349.1771 082.9876 14.64852722001202
Mike, DK3WN, has his decoding client up and running as well. Thanks
The MCubed-2 TLE lottery has officially begun. Thanks to Colin Hurst, VK5HI, for pointing out that CalPoly’s TLE page has JSPOC updated TLEs from our launch. Colin was tracking JSPOC-712 and our home brewed TLE was in between JSPOC-710 and 711 but wasn’t providing the best results. These three objects are all about 12 seconds Continue Reading »