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/
The IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel have announced coordinated frequencies for two new CubeSats.
The downlink frequencies announced are:
TechEdSat – 437.465 MHz
HumSAT-D – 437.365 MHz
IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Status http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/
To assist builders and prospective builders of satellites that will operate on frequencies allocated by the ITU to the Amateur Service, a comprehensive set of guidelines have been produced, see http://www.iaru.org/satellite/
The CubeSat Program has revolutionized the space industry and space activities. Access to space turned from an obscure dream to a vivid reality to many research and academic institutions around the world. The American University in Cairo has the capacity and the expertise to join this prestigious club of ambitious institutions in the quest for space technology. Contrary to the belief that it requires a team of rocket scientists to design, build, and operate a spacecraft, the project is a multi-disciplinary effort, leveraging insight and expertise accross multiple science and engineering discip-lines. AUC will be the first institution in the Arab Region to design and build a satellite.
This multidisciplinary project will stimulate technological research and innovation across many departments at AUC. Having hands on access to conceiving, designing, building and operating actual spacecrafts will provide students with a level of prestigious, unprecedented, interdisciplinary experience. In addition to the technical knowledge, students will develop leadership qualities, as well as project manag-ement and interpersonal skills that are invaluable in todays market, all of which will start to accumulate at the national level as students leave the university and enter the local industry. If you are interested in joining the CubeSat design team, and being part of this prestigious endeavor, please visit the “Join AUC – CubeSat” page for more information. Fady Michel, Ph.D. AUC – CubeSat System Architect AUC.CubeSat@gmail.com
First-MOVE is a CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment. The 1U CubeSat has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar cell. First-MOVE also carries a CCD camera.
Despite the narrow bandwidth data channel high quality pictures can be taken and transfered to Earth using a specially developed algorithm which filters the pictures due to content (Space, Earth horizon), compresses them, fragments them to small data packages and generates thumbnails for preview.
First-MOVE completed integration in April 2012.
Watch First-MOVE Flap Panel Deployment Test
Watch First-MOVE Complete Integration
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