The ARISSat-1 Team has put together a survey on ARISSat-1 operations.
Please take a few minutes to answer the questions athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/arissat1-operation.
The results of the survey will be posted to the Official ARISSat-1 website http://www.arissat1.org
Videos and slides from the Summer CubeSat Developers’ Workshop, held August 6-7 at the 25th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, are now available for download from
http://cubesat.org/index.php/workshops/past-workshops/2011summerslides
ESA’s UK astronaut Tim Peake, together with fellow astronauts Thomas Pesquet from France, Randolph Bresnik from NASA, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Sergey Ryzhikov from Russia, has just completed (21 September 2011) a week of living and working in a dark and humid cave – a unique training experience, organised by ESA, to prepare astronauts for space.
The 5 astronauts are now going through debriefings similar to those that follow an astronaut’s return from a space mission. Continue reading
6 UK graduates have just had their first taste of working in the space sector with the successful completion of the International Space University’s two-month Space Studies Programme (SSP).
With funding assistance from the UK Space Agency’s ISU Scholarship scheme, they were exposed to a wide range of disciplines related to space programmes and enterprises.
An additional grant winner has just started a 1 year MSc at the ISU and one of the students from the two month SSP will be joining him. This years SSP was held at the Graz University of Technology in Austria.
The ISU provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community. In its two-month Space Studies Programme and one-year Masters Programme, ISU offers its students a unique core curriculum including study areas such as space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society. Both courses also involve an intense student research team project providing international graduate students and young space professionals with the opportunity to solve complex problems by working together in an intercultural environment. Continue reading
Drexel University Team
The team at Drexel University have been doing some research on a deployable boom for CubeSats.
The YouTube description reads:
Drexel University’s experiment, Characterizing the Performance of the CubeSat Deployable Boom in Microgravity has been selected to participate in NASA’s 2011 Grant Us Space Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. This flight will take place in Houston. The flight week the team participated in was July 7-16, 2011.
Watch MicroG_SpaceGrant_Drexel_July_2011.mov
The Triangle – Students ride NASA flight
http://thetriangle.org/2011/08/12/students-ride-nasa-flight/
Matt Severin, principal of Dowagiac Middle School in Michigan, took some of his students outside to track and listen to the satellite ARISSat-1 on Tuesday, September 13.
Two years earlier, Severin, then principal of Sister Lakes Elementary School, had a picture taken of the students and submitted it to be flown on ARISSat.
On Tuesday, the students were able to track the satellite, listen to greetings in several languages and receive telemetry as well as SSTV (Slow Scan Television) images with a goal to promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
The Daily News posted a story on this activity.http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2011/09/13/
passionate-principal-stokes-science-interest/
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