{"id":18180,"date":"2019-03-10T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18180"},"modified":"2019-03-10T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T18:45:22","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-mar-10-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18180","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Mar.10.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat<\/a> \/ SmallSat projects and programs:<\/p>\n

** Old Dominion University (ODU) CubeSat<\/strong> completed for the Virginia CubeSat Constellation program (see previous CubeSat Roundup<\/a> for more about the Virginia Cubesat Constellation initiative): ODU’s CubeSat Moves Closer to Liftoff – News @ ODU<\/a><\/p>\n

A team of Old Dominion University students took a giant leap toward space as they joined two other Virginia universities in delivering their CubeSats to NanoRacks<\/a> in Houston on Feb. 26. The nano-sized cube satellites were successfully integrated into the company’s commercially developed NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) in preparation for launch on Northrop Grumman’s Antares to the International Space Station. The launch is scheduled for April 17 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kimberly Wright, a graduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, serves as student mission manager for ODU. She was accompanied by her teammates, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering master’s student Westin Messer and Electrical Engineering master’s student Anthony Cappiello, as well as their faculty advisor, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dimitrie Popescu. Wright was thrilled to finally hand off ODU’s CubeSat for this critical step in a multiyear journey.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kim Wright (Center), mission lead for ODU, takes a picture of the ODU CubeSat. UVA mission lead Erin Puckette (Left) and Virginia Tech mission lead Madison Brodnax (Right) look on.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

**\u00a0 The Alabama CubeSat Initiative<\/a><\/strong> will involve about 100 students and faculty from colleges around the state in the developing of CubeSats for deep space missions:<\/p>\n

“There have been many student-developed CubeSats previously; to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a student-developed CubeSat to fly outside LEO,” says Dr. Dale Thomas, ASGC director, UAH professor and the eminent scholar in systems engineering. “I think that’s a pretty big deal. And it will be exceptionally challenging.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On Oct. 16, the Alabama Space Authority passed a resolution supporting the Alabama CubeSat Initiative. The intent of the initiative is to ramp up a system by which ASGC members will eventually fly one collaborative CubeSat per year.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Initiative is sponsored by the Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC)<\/a>. Commercial support for the program: LogiCore donates $5,000 to help ASGC CubeSat workshop – ASGA<\/a><\/p>\n

A $5,000 donation from LogiCore Corporation, a logistics and engineering services company in Huntsville Alabama is helping the Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) to design and build the first in a planned series of statewide collaborative cube satellites (CubeSats).<\/em><\/p>\n

A recent workshop about the project, which will carry a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detector to be placed in the vicinity of the moon to detect short gamma-ray bursts, was partially sponsored by the LogiCore donation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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** Sydney University’s Centre for CubeSats, UAVs & their Applications (CUAVA)<\/a><\/strong> will build two technology demonstration satellites that will be deployed from the Japanese module on the ISS: Sydney Uni partners with Japanese start-up to launch CubeSats – iTnews<\/a><\/p>\n

The Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles and their Applications (CUAVA) is currently developing two CubeSats to test the uses for cheaper, smaller satellites in the Australian context while developing local expertise in the field.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018CUAVA-1\u2019 is set to be the first satellite launched later this year, and will be laden with remote sensing, GPS, and communications equipment, along with sensors to monitor the environment in space.<\/em><\/p>\n

Space BD, who is also a commercial service provider with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will provide end-to-end launch and deployment services for CUAVA.<\/em><\/p>\n

** Latest on KickSat-2<\/a><\/strong>, which has over 100 tiny ChipSats on board:<\/p>\n

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We just sent a reset command to #KickSat2<\/a> to try re-deploying the antenna. Any help receiving packets in the next few days would be hugely appreciated! @SatNOGS<\/a> @cgbassa<\/a> @radiotelescoop<\/a> @dk3wn<\/a> @pe0sat<\/a> @HAMSATNL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Zac Manchester (@zacinaction) March 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n