{"id":18749,"date":"2019-05-12T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2019-05-12T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:32:40","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-may-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18749","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; May.12.2019"},"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>** <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.usispace.com\/wp\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>UNITE CubeSat Project<\/strong><\/a><strong> built by Univ. of Southern Indiana undergraduates<\/strong> has operated more than 100 days: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tristatehomepage.com\/news\/local-news\/unite-cubesat-reaches-100-days-in-orbit-a-milestone-for-student-built-satellites\/1995758091\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNITE CubeSat reaches 100 days in orbit, a milestone for student built satellites &#8211; TriSate Homepage.com<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The CubeSat was deployed on January 31, 2019 and has been sending back data since its departure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>According to a recent study, only 45% of CubeSat units last longer than 60 days in service.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer CubeSat, or UNITE CubeSat, was funded by a NASA Undergraduate Student Instruments Project (USIP) grant.<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>3U-CubeSat to de-orbit space junk<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/blogs\/gadget-master\/space\/oscar-cubesat-aims-tidy-space-debris-2019-05\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space: OSCaR CubeSat aims to tidy space debris &#8211; ElectronicsWeekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>This interesting spacecraft will be dubbed OSCaR and it\u2019s intended to collect space debris, or space junk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Standing for \u201cObsolete Spacecraft Capture and Removal\u201d, it\u2019s a three-unit CubeSat being created by a team of researchers at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/content\/2019\/04\/23\/rensselaer-team-developing-tool-battle-space-debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"image noopener noreferrer\">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/a>, the USA\u2019s oldest technological research university.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AMSAT<\/strong><\/a><strong> news<\/strong> 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=\"https:\/\/amsat.org\/pipermail\/ans\/2019\/001105.html\">ANS-132 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMSAT Activities at Hamvention 2019<\/li>\n<li>Tickets Still Available for TAPR\/AMSAT Banquet<\/li>\n<li>ARRL Releases Mobile App for the Dayton Hamvention<\/li>\n<li>Going to Hamvention? Please Stop By and Say Thank You to Kenwood and the ARRL for ARISS Donations<\/li>\n<li>Work the AMSAT Hamvention Demo Station!<\/li>\n<li>Australia&#8217;s ABC Commemorates 50th Anniversary of AO-5<\/li>\n<li>ARSATC 4th Birthday<\/li>\n<li>GNU Radio Conference 2019 Call for Papers and Presentations<\/li>\n<li>Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for May 9, 2019<\/li>\n<li>How to Support AMSAT<\/li>\n<li>Upcoming Satellite Operations<\/li>\n<li>Satellite Shorts from All Over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General CubeSat\/SmallSat info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student smallsats:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/space.skyrocket.de\/doc_sdat\/acrux-1.htm\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACRUX 1 &#8211; Gunter&#8217;s Space Page<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0student-built CubeSat at the University of Melbourne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Smallsat projects:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/lightsail-2-integrated-prox-1.html\">LightSail 2 Integrated with Prox-1 Carrier Spacecraft | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verdict.co.uk\/hiber-nanosatellites-iot-connectivity\/\">How Hiber nanosatellites provide IoT connectivity anywhere on Earth &#8211; Verdict.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2019\/019460\/first-flights\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Flights: Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin\u2019s group launches its first iterations of space-traveling \u2018wafercraft\u2019 &#8211; The UCSB Current<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Other smallsat news:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/cubesat-builder-aac-clyde-space-reports-9-drop-in-q1-revenue-but-points-to-upward-trend-for-the-year\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cubesat builder AAC Clyde Space reports 9% drop in Q1 revenue, but points to upward trend for the year &#8211; Space Intel Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2019\/05\/09\/securing-satellites\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Securing satellites: The new space race &#8211; Help Net Security &#8211; HelpNetSecurity.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spie.org\/news\/pagano-video?SSO=1\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Pagano: CubeSat platform will lower cost of weather modeling and forecasting &#8211; SPIE.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>** <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/events\/lectures_archive.php?year=2019&amp;month=5\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CubeSats &amp; SmallSats &#8211; von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Lecture Series\/NASA JPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Some are the size of a toaster. Others a suitcase. They can ride into space as secondary payloads in a rocket&#8217;s &#8220;trunk,&#8221; or even be tossed out of an airlock, to start their missions. Small satellites, often collectively called &#8220;cubesats,&#8221; are changing the way we explore space and monitor our home planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Host: Preston Dyches<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Speaker: Anne Marinan (JPL) \u2014 Systems Engineer, Near Earth Asteroid Scout &amp; Mars Cube One;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em> Team Xc Lead Engineer: Travis Imken (JPL) \u2014 Project Systems Engineer, RainCube<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/9KyzCPV8R74?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 style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1524742414\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1524742414&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=079d0abd89e653831609367e775bdb25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Delta-v<\/strong><\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; 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TriSate Homepage.com &#8211; The CubeSat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; May.12.2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateurstudent-satellite","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4Sp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17795,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17795","url_meta":{"origin":18749,"position":0},"title":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup &#8211; 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