A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat / SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here):
** Univ. of Maine MESAT1 CubeSat project to involve high schools in environmental data analysis:
- NASA selects Maine’s first small research satellite for launch in next three years – UMaine News/Univ. of Maine
- NASA Awards our Maine CubeSat Program! – Maine Space Grant Consortium
- NASA will launch 1st Maine-built satellite within 3 years | WGME
“We offered to kind of lead this effort,” said Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMaine and director of UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research. “The University of Maine will build the satellite, will work with NASA to launch it, and we’ll provide the data to middle schools and high schools.”
Graduate students from UMaine and undergraduate students from the University of Southern Maine will be involved in designing, developing and testing the small satellite, which will be about the size of a loaf of bread.
** Two university CubeSat projects underway in the Philippines: Scholars develop nanosatellites – Manila Bulletin News
Two nanosatellites which will be the first “Philippine university-built”, are slated for launch in the last quarter of the year, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said.
The Maya 3 and Maya 4 cube satellites (CubeSat) are currently being developed by the first batch of scholars under the local nanosatellite engineering track in the Master of Science/Master of Electrical Engineering (MSEE/MSEE) graduate program at the University of the Philippines (UPD), through a scholarship grant from the DOST – Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI).
See also Maya-4 @ Nanosats Database.
** AMSAT news on student and amateur CubeSat/smallsat projects: ANS-054 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
- QARMAN and Phoenix CubeSats Deployed from ISS
- AMSAT Files Comments Opposing Deletion of 3.4 GHz Band
- NEMO-1 Buoy Report
- GNU Radio Conference – Tickets and Call for Papers
- U.S. Naval Academy’s PSAT3 Scheduled to Launch in Mid-March
- Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution
- “Getting Started with Amateur Satellites” Available with Membership
- ARISS Radio Telebridge Stalwart Gerald Klatzko, ZS6BTD, SK
- Upcoming ARISS Contacts
- Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
- Upcoming Satellite Operations
- Satellite Shorts From All Over
General CubeSat/SmallSat info:
- Resources:
- NASA Announces Next Round of Candidates for CubeSat Space Missions | NASA
- Cubesat for everyone – ULA statement during press conference – Monroe Scoop
- Novel High Gain Antennas for Emerging CubeSats: Characterization of Deployable Mesh Reflectors and Low-Profile, Metal-Only Stepped Reflectors – EE/UCLA
- Projects:
- ASU’s Phoenix CubeSat Satellite launched into orbit – The State Press – Update on the Phoenix CubeSat mentioned here several times.
- Passive space debris removal using drag sail deorbiting technology – The Space Review
- NASA Awards Contract to Launch CubeSat to Moon from Virginia | NASA
- What is AzTechSat-1? | NASA
- Rocket Lab will launch a NASA cubesat to the Moon | Engadget
- Rocket Lab’s NASA Moon launch to kick off new era of ultra-cheap deep space exploration – Teslarati
- Qarman CubeSat deployed from ISS – ESA
- Hungary’s Space Activities (Part 2): The smallsat programme & PocketQube missions | SpaceTech Asia
** ASU’s Phoenix CubeSat deployment from the ISS:
** Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer – On Orbit Assembly – Drew Morgan
Check out this great time lapse of Astronaut Drew Morgan preparing the 17th Nanoracks CubeSat Deployment Mission on the International Space Station! Nanoracks deployed nine satellites in February 2020 as a part of this mission.
** Building CubeSats to test electrodynamic tethering in space with MiTEE
Electrodynamic tethering could enable coordinated fleets of tens to hundreds of miniature satellites, transforming the way we monitor natural disasters, space weather and the broader space environment by eliminating the need for propellant to maintain a proper orbit and formation: http://clasp-research.engin.umich.edu...
Mi-TEE (Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment) is a University of Engineering project that aims to test the tethering technology in space. The project was selected by NASA in 2015 as part of its CubeSat Launch Initiative. The experiment is currently expected to launch in 2020.
The project is currently organized through U-M’s Multidisciplinary Design Program, and is advised by Brian Gilchrist, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of U-M’s Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL). http://www.sprl.umich.edu/
** Jeff Dillon – Cubesat to Mars – 22nd Annual International Mars Society Convention
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