A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here):
** Lightweight 3D printed composite CubeSat structure built by French university students with industrial partners:
- CRP Technology revolutionized nanosatellite world – CRP
- Propelling the field of small satellites with 3D printing – InsideComposites.com
LISA, an Italian-based company specialist for over 25 years in the use and development of advanced additive manufacturing technologies and materials, has collaborated with the Laboratoire InterUniversitaire des Système Atmosphérique (LISA) of Universite Paris-est Creteil (UPEC) on the construction of a nano-satellite that is a 3U CubeSat formfactor.
The project was carried by students under CNES and Space Campus University supervision. The goal was to develop a demonstrator that can be flight-ready in Low Earth Orbit. The engineering team at LISA and CNES decided to rely on CRP Technology and its Windform Top-Line family of high-performance materials for the manufacturing of the nano-satellite.
Another CubeSat project at CRP is described in Construction of a CubeSat using Additive Manufacturing – CRP-USA
** AMSAT news on student and amateur CubeSat/smallsat projects: ANS-300 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
- AMSAT Goal: “Amateur Radio in Every CubeSat”
- AMSAT VP User Services Describes Planning for Improvements
- AMSAT-DL Symposium and JHV 2019 November 9 – November 10
- Reminder – ARISS Proposal Window is Open Until November 30, 2019
- ARISS Activities & Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule
- Software Update for UZ7HO’s Software Packet-Radio TNC
- Upcoming Satellite Operations
- The AMSAT Hamfests & Conventions Web Page Updates
- Satellite Shorts From All Over
General CubeSat/SmallSat info:
- Resources:
- SmallSat Symposium 2020 – Feb.3-6, 2020, Silicon Valley
- CubeSats Are Small Yet Mighty Important In Space Exploration – NPR
- Technologies:
- NASA taps telecommunications technology to develop more capable, miniaturized spectrometer – NASA Goddard/Phys.org
- German startup to measure Earth’s temperature round the clock using CubeSats – GeoSpatialWorld.net
- The Space cable that saved space in world’s smallest satellites – DesignWorldOnline.com
- Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart – ESA
- Projects:
- Blue Canyon Technologies Selected for NASA Ames Starling Demonstration Mission – BCT – Demo of CubeSat “swarms”
- Highest Mission to put Astro Digital Satellite in Orbit is launched by the Rocket lab – Chief Analyst
- Lunar Flashlight – NASA JPL
- NASA surveys industry for atmospheric monitoring CubeSat that will push the bounds of SWaP in spacecraft – Intelligent Aerospace
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