{"id":19255,"date":"2019-07-16T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2019-07-16T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:25:06","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-july-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19255","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – July.16.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

** University built RFTSat<\/a> to test space-based solar power microwave transmission<\/strong> system: Launch of RFTSat this Sunday! – The Propagation Group\/Georgia Tech<\/a><\/p>\n

This Sunday, a Falcon 9 rocket will launch a SpaceX Dragon capsule that will rendezvous with the International Space Station. \u00a0Part of this mission will include RFTSat<\/a>, developed by a team of Northwest Nazarene University (Boise, Idaho) led by Prof. Joshua Griffin and a team of Georgia Tech Researchers in ECE. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This CubeSat experiment will have a unique RF energy-harvesting radio designed and built by the Georgia Tech Propagation Group. PhD student researcher Cheng Qi has built a one-of-a-kind microwave backscatter reader and tag-sensor combo that will drive the mission science package.<\/em><\/p>\n

The low-powered reader designed by our team deploys a sensor that unfurls a distance away from the spacecraft. The reader then energizes and receives backscatter information from the device using a 5.8 GHz transmission. The launch info can be tracked here<\/a>. \u00a0Interesting articles on the launch can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The project was funded by NASA, but could not have been completed without private matching funds from the Space Solar Power Institute<\/a>. \u00a0Complete with generator, retrodirective antenna, and rectenna harvester, the radio package qualifies as the first microwave space-based solar power satellite ever tested \u2014 despite the somewhat limited 1m range. \u00a0You have to start somewhere!<\/em><\/p>\n

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RFTSat (Radio Frequency Tag Satellite) CubeSat built by teams at Northwest Nazarene University<\/a> and Georgia Tech<\/a>. It will demonstrate RF energy harvesting and backscatter communication.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

* AMSAT<\/strong><\/a> news<\/strong> on student and amateur CubeSat\/smallsat projects: ANS-195 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin <\/a><\/p>\n

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  • 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors Election Ballots Sent<\/li>\n
  • New Orbitrack iOS app free for Apollo 11 Anniversary<\/li>\n
  • Help Needed – JAISAT-1 Telemetry<\/li>\n
  • Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for July 11, 2019<\/li>\n
  • How to Support AMSAT<\/li>\n
  • Upcoming Satellite Operations<\/li>\n
  • Satellite Shorts from All Over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    General CubeSat\/SmallSat info<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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    • Projects:\n
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      • Virginia CubeSat Constellation<\/a>:\n
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        • UVa CubeSat in orbit after launch from International Space Station – roanoke.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • LightSail-2 at The Planetary Society<\/a>:\n
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          • LightSail 2 Team to Conduct More Testing before Sail Deployment | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • BIRDS<\/a> – Kyushu Institute of Technology:\n
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            • How CubeSats revolutionize scientific space research? [Interview] – aerotime.aero<\/a><\/li>\n
            • BIRDS Project Newsletter Issue No. 41 – 30 June 2019\u00a0 (pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • Chinese CAS-7B Satellite Carrying an FM Transponder to Launch – ARRL.org<\/a><\/li>\n
            • Blue Canyon Technologies Providing CubeSats In Support Of NASA CLICK Flight Demonstration Missions – Blue Canyon Technologies<\/a><\/li>\n
            • \u00c5AC Microtec confirms successful launch of NSLSat-1 – SpaceWatch.Global<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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