{"id":17988,"date":"2019-02-25T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17988"},"modified":"2019-02-24T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:13:01","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-feb-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17988","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Feb.25.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CubeSat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CubeSat<\/a> \/ SmallSat projects and programs:<\/p>\n<p>** <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lunahmap.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LunaH-Map Spacecraft<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; A CubeSat project at Arizona State University:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) is a 6U CubeSat mission recently selected by NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate to fly as a secondary payload on first Exploration Mission (EM-1) of the Space Launch System (SLS), scheduled to launch in July 2018. LunaH-Map is led by a small team of researchers and students at Arizona State University, in collaboration with NASA centers, JPL, universities, and commercial space businesses. The LunaH-Map mission will reveal hydrogen abundances at spatial scales below 10 km in order to understand the relationship between hydrogen and permanently shadowed regions, particularly craters, at the Moon\u2019s South Pole.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIvhMLfgvEc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>KickSat-2 Update<\/strong> &#8211; Latest on the recently deployed CubeSat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/experiments\/2374.html\">KickSat-2<\/a>, which started as a Cornell student project funded with <a href=\"https:\/\/kicksat.github.io\/\">a Kickstarter<\/a>, that release over a hundred &#8220;ChipSats&#8221; when it reaches a very low earth orbit (assuming it gets permission from the FCC to do so): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/kicksat-2-is-alive-and-being-tracked\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KickSat-2 is Alive and Being Tracked &#8211; ARRL.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>KickSat-2 is scheduled to deploy up to 104 tiny Sprite satellites into low Earth orbit. The Sprites then would transmit on 437.240 MHz at 10 mW, communicating with each other via a mesh network and with command stations on Earth. The Sprites, which are less than 2 square inches, are expected to reenter Earth\u2019s atmosphere within weeks. Manchester did not indicate if attempts would be made to deploy the Sprites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>NASA calls KickSat-2 a technology demonstration mission that\u2019s designed to demonstrate the deployment and operation of prototype Sprite \u201cChipSats,\u201d also known as \u201cfemtosatellites.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The FCC recently imposed a $900,000 penalty on a commercial concern, Swarm Technologies, for launching similar tiny satellites after the FCC had denied permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThese spacecraft are therefore below the size threshold at which detection by the Space Surveillance Network can be considered routine,\u201d the FCC told Swarm Technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Manchester had been trying without success to convince the FCC to allow him to deploy the Sprites from KickSat-2, but, apparently gun shy after the Swarm action, the agency denied permission at the last moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Once NASA adopted KickSat-2 as its own mission, however, the regulatory body shifted to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and the launch went forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.stanford.edu\/people\/zachary-manchester\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zachary Manchester<\/a>, who started the project while a post-doc at Cornell, is now an assistant professor at the Stanford School of Engineering. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/rexlab\/projects\/kicksat.html\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">REx Lab: KickSat Project<\/a> page at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7xvQgClMf0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMSAT<\/a> news on student and amateur CubeSat\/smallsat projects: <a title=\"[ans] ANS-313 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Fox-1Cliff Currently Scheduled for November 19th Launch\" href=\"http:\/\/amsat.org\/pipermail\/ans\/2019\/001089.html\">ANS-055 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50th Anniversary AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Communications Achievement Award (Limited Edition) Starts March 3rd<\/li>\n<li>FalconSAT-3 Digipeater Waiting for Your APRS Packets<\/li>\n<li>Qatar OSCAR-100 Web Receiver Now Live<\/li>\n<li>AMSAT Journal January\/February 2019 Is on Its Way<\/li>\n<li>KickSat-2 is Alive and Being Tracked (Updated 2\/19\/2019)<\/li>\n<li>Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Communications Training Course<\/li>\n<li>IARU Region 1 Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) Announced<\/li>\n<li>This Month in AMSAT History<\/li>\n<li>AMSAT-SA Space Symposium March 16, 2019<\/li>\n<li>HamSCI Workshop Receives National Science Foundation Grant<\/li>\n<li>Upcoming Satellite Operations<\/li>\n<li>ARISS News<\/li>\n<li>Satellite Shorts from All Over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General CubeSat\/SmallSat info<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CubeSat Projects\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhuapl.edu\/PressRelease\/190220\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johns Hopkins APL Begins CAT CubeSat Experiment Following Launch from International Space Station &#8211; JHUAPL.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-02\/nsfc-saf022119.php\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNoOPI: A flying ace for soil moisture and snow measurements &#8211; NASA Goddard Space Center\/EurekAlert!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/space-startup-aims-to-connect-satellites-directly-with-cellphones-11550979518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Startup Aims to Connect [Small] Satellites Directly With Cellphones &#8211; WSJ<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubiquitilink.com\/\">ubiquitilink<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Space radio:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.george-smart.co.uk\/2019\/02\/eshail2-rx\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Receiving Es\u2019Hail-2 GeoSat \u2013 George Smart \u2013 M1GEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17918\">New enhancements to low-cost GOES weather satellite station for amateurs &#8211; Space-for-All\/HobbySpace.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Launching CubeSats:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.machinedesign.com\/mechanical\/start-launch-cubesats-hot-air-balloons\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Start-up to Launch CubeSats from Hot Air Balloons &#8211; MachineDesign.com<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leoaerospace.com\/\"><em>Leo Aerospace Inc.<\/em><\/a><em>, a start-up company that came out of Purdue University with plans to use high-altitude balloons to launch rockets into space, has successfully fired a test rocket. This moves the company closer to its goal of ending the backlog of microsatellites waiting months or longer to \u201chitch\u201d a ride on larger rockets<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misc:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eugenedailynews.com\/2019\/02\/good-things-really-do-come-in-small-packages\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Things Really Do Come In Small Packages. | Eugene Daily News<\/a> &#8211; An intro to CubeSats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milbankmonitor.com\/isro-to-train-45-countries-in-nano-satellite-making\/18\/02\/2019\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISRO to Train 45 Countries in Nano-Satellite Making | Milbank Monitor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pa2p.nl\/noaa\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build your own Space Weather dashboard &#8211; Jan, PA2P<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=83bcfeddf696d358f69568254bcd9ce9&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;node=172282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out the Best Selling Electronics at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat \/ SmallSat projects and programs: ** LunaH-Map Spacecraft &#8211; A CubeSat project at Arizona State University: The Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) is a 6U CubeSat mission recently selected by NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate to fly as a secondary payload on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Feb.25.2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-education","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4G8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23028,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23028","url_meta":{"origin":17988,"position":0},"title":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; Oct.28.2020","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat \/ SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here): ** Embry-Riddle team building EagleCam CubeSat to captures images of the landing on the Moon of the Intuitive Machines Nova-C Lunar Lander: Eagles to Land First\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HaloSatRendering-500x455.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19399,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19399","url_meta":{"origin":17988,"position":1},"title":"The Space Show this week &#8211; Aug.5.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. 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