The ground station team, led by Srinagesh Sharma and Matthew Chase, have been working some late night passes. They recently installed some high powered output amplifiers in the UHF and VHF bands to boost our transmit capability of our FXB ground station. Here is a photo of a late pass from last night with a Continue Reading »
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Springmann in student competition again!
John Springmann, an MXL PhD student, was recently selected to compete in the Frank J. Reed Student Scholarship Competition at the SmallSat Conference this summer. This is his second time, and during the first, he won first place. The title of his paper is “On-Orbit Calibration of Photodiodes for Attitude Determination”. With these techniques, John is Continue Reading »
MCubed-2 EDU in operation
The MCubed-2 team has been working diligently on the EDU and Flight systems. The EDU is pictures below in a partially integrated state. Prototype photos are online as well from a vibe test a few months ago.
The team’s schedule is packed over the next few weeks. We are traveling to AFIT to test with Continue Reading »
Spectrum Skill ++
Congrats to Ben, Srinagesh and their team for doing well in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge! Their team will be moving on to the next round. Good luck!
Falcons, Dragons & Wolverines – Oh My!
A Michigan and MXL alum, Kiko Dontchev, will be hosting the next SpaceX launch broadcast! See the full story here.