Tag Archives: CubeSat

May 11 2012

Hackers In Space: Hackerspace Global Grid Interview

An interview given to Tom Nardi by Gregor Jehle (Hadez) of the Stuttgart Hackerspace was recently published on The Powerbase site.

In the interview Hadez discusses his ideas for distributed satellite ground station network and the creation of a Hackerspace Global Grid.

Read The Powerbase interview at
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/02/hackers-in-space-hackerspace-global-grid-interview/

Hackerspace Global Grid on Twitter
https://twitter.com/hxglobalgrid

Hadez took part in a presentation to the Chaos Computer Camp 2011 that can be seen at
http://www.uk.amsat.org/3892

May 7 2012

ARTSAT release App for iPhone or iPod Touch

ARTSAT PROJECT-1: INVADER is an amateur radio “Art Satellite” currently being developed as a part of the “ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project” which aims at a practical use of a satellite for art and design. Invader is a 1U CubeSat being developed by students at Tama Art University.

ARTSAT have just released their App for the iPhone or iPod Touch (iOS 5 or greater).

You can install it by entering your email address or in the USA your phone number at
https://apps.facebook.com/fanpagemobilizer/install?app_id=990569E751E34CCF898C9352FAC2F92F

ARTSAT on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/artsat

Invader CubeSat – A Student Art Satellite http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=6449

May 7 2012

IARU agrees 437.525 MHz for ITF-1

Ayano Okamura ITF-1 Project Manager

The Cubesat “Image The Future” ITF-1 build by students at the University of Tsukuba has had the frequency of 437.525 MHz coordinated by the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Cooordination panel.

IFT-1 recently underwent thermal vacuum testing.

It is planned to be launched on a H-IIA rocket in the fiscal year 2013. The orbit will be 400 by 350km with an inclination of 65 degrees.

The formal name ITF-1 comes from the initial letter of the university slogan “Imagine The Future”.  The satellite also has a popular name YUI which means “bond” in Japanese, it came from the project’s concept‚ “Creating the Worldwide Human Community”.

The UTF-1 Project Manager is Ayano Okamura and you can read her blog at http://tinyurl.com/ITF-1-ProjectManagerBlog

The Chief Tech blog by Asai Eisuke is at http://tinyurl.com/ITF-1-TechBlog

ITF-1 (YUI) on the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination pages http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/formal_detail.php?serialnum=226

 

May 6 2012

OSSI CubeSat – Ground Station Video

Hojun Song with Hannes Gassert wearing OSSI GS Backpack

Hojun Song with Hannes Gassert wearing OSSI Ground Station Backpack and holding a Yagi antenna

Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO has made available videos showing the construction of his satellite OSSI.

In addition to radio communications (145 MHz uplink, 435 MHz downlink) OSSI is fitted with LED’s that can flash in Morse Code and is also flying Super-Capacitors.

The backpack ground station that he’s developed features a novel fold up antenna.

OSSI will take off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonour in Kazakhstan this August.

Watch Setting up the OSSI Satellite Ground Station

 The OSSI ground station has been delivered to etoy. etoy is art and invests all resources in the production of more art, see http://www.etoy.com/

OSSI carries LED’s that can signal in Morse Code

Watch Building the Onboard Computer (OBC)

OSSI Art CubeSat to Launch in August http://www.uk.amsat.org/6993

Funds have been raised by selling T-shirts

May 4 2012

To the Moon on a Shoestring

EuroLuna

EuroLuna

Tor Fos Mortensen gave a presentation about Euroluna to the European Lunar Symposium in Berlin , April 19-20, 2012.

Euroluna are a Danish amateur team participating in the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE contest to be the first privately funded team to land and drive a rover on the Moon.

Their first Amateur Radio CubeSat Romit-1, fitted with an Ion motor, is planned to launch on an Interorbital Systems Neptune 30 rocket.

 

Watch Euroluna Presentation with Sound.wmv

March 2012 – Euroluna OZ9LUNA CubeSat Launch Update http://www.uk.amsat.org/5153

Twitter http://twitter.com/Euroluna

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Euroluna/337261739568

Web http://www.euroluna.dk/

Interorbital Systems http://www.interorbital.com/

Google Lunar X PRIZE http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/

May 4 2012

TechEdSat Challenge

Space Hackers fom Lausanne, Switzerland and San Francisco, USA have been working on the TechEdSat CubeSat challenge.

TechEdSat is a 1U CubeSat that will be launched on July 21, 2012 from Tanegashima, Japan aboard the HTV-3 ISS resupply mission. TechEdSat will be among the first CubeSats to be deployed from the ISS, and is investigating the use of Plug and Play software/hardware and intersatellite communication via Iridium and Orbcomm networks.

For this challenge, space hackers must implement a command and control system, utilizing both the OrbComm and Iridium modems as uplink and downlink. The software should be modular to facilitate the easy implementation of future commands, and should be fault tolerant.

A ground segment of the software should include the ability for a laptop (or bonus points for an Apple or Android phone) to issue commands to the spacecraft over Iridium/Orbcomm. The spacecraft segment should be written for a Linux environment able to listen for commands, and have the ability to send arbitrary data packages back to the ground.

Bonus points for relaying data received from the spacecraft automatically to Twitter. Space hackers will be issued interface documentation for Iridium and OrbComm modems, and engineering development hardware for testing. This software has the potential to fly on the TechEdSat mission if completed.

Find out more at https://github.com/AVGP/CubeSatRemote/wiki