Team ‘Plan B’ is a Vancouver based group of Canadian enthusiasts who aim to land a vehicle on the Moon.
Watch Team Plan B, Year 2012. Update. CubeSat as a testing stage for a Lunar mission.
Team Plan B
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/plan-b
Hobbyspace reports that the San Diego Space Society is starting a project to develop a CubeSat style payload for reusable suborbital space flights.
Project PoGo kicks off on April 7 with its first planning meeting to build reusable suborbital payload based on the CanSat / CubeSat format.
The suborbital payload will be flown to the edge of space on a reusable rocket. This will allow data sample collection to be taken repeatedly and as well as adjustments and improvements to be made to the payload instrumentation. Our goal is to fly twice before the end of 2012.
PoGo’s payload could study a wide variety of phenomenon besides atmosphere and climate monitoring including cosmic radiation monitoring, ozone monitoring, EM field monitoring, etc.
PoGo will consist of at least two teams. One team will focus on payload development and another team will focus on launch provider selection and ground support, aka Mission Control.
Join the Team! We need people to help in the following areas:
– team leaders (x2)
– fundraisers
– promotional and media specialists
– people good with their hands
– people knowledgeable in electronics
– software programmers
– ground support specialists
– and many others.
Update: Team Leaders will be offered a free registration for a cubesat development workshop hosted by the Silicon Valley Space Center.
SD Space members and the public are invited to participate. Please email projects [at] sandiegospace.org if you’d like to attend.
Project PoGo http://sandiegospace.org/?m=20120407&cat=3
The Ankara based Amateur Satellite Technology Association (TAMSAT) have received more press coverage for their new CubeSat TURKSAT-3USAT.
It is a three unit CubeSat developed for SSB/CW communications in low earth orbit. The VHF/UHF transponder and all other subsystems, except the stabilization, are doubled for redundancy. Where possible, both COTS systems and in-house development is employed.
The energy is provided using lithium polymer batteries together with super capacitors. Satellite stabilization is accomplished using passive magnetic attitude control system with hysteresis rods. The satellite is to include a de-orbiting system which will make it re-enter the atmosphere following completion of its life time. The 3USAT is expected to launch near the end of 2012.
IARU coordinated frequencies are: transponder uplink 145.940-145.990 MHz, downlink 435.200-435.250 MHz and a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz.
Read the newspaper story in Google English at http://tinyurl.com/3USAT-PressStory
Web: http://www.tamsat.org.tr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000953042369
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/tamsat_tr
What can you do with a CubeSat? With payloads from microbes to solar sails, the possibilities
are nearly endless. Here’s another one: a “photon sieve” proposed for an Air Force Academy 3U CubeSat that might yield an exponential improvement over standard optics.
FalconSAT-7 is slated for a 2014 launch.
What can you do with a CubeSat? With payloads from microbes to solar sails, the possibilities
are nearly endless. Here’s another one: a “photon sieve” proposed for an Air Force Academy 3U CubeSat that might yield an exponential improvement over standard optics.
FalconSAT-7 is slated for a 2014 launch.
First-MOVE is a CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
Watch First-MOVE Vibration Tests
First-MOVE CubeSat Solar Panel Deployment Video https://amsat-uk.org/2012/04/02/first-move-cubesat-solar-panel-deployment-video/
AMSAT-UK 
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