{"id":19501,"date":"2019-08-25T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19501"},"modified":"2019-08-26T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:47:31","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-aug-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19501","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Aug.25.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, press releases, etc. related to student and amateur CubeSat<\/a> \/ SmallSat projects and programs (find previous smallsat roundups here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

** Communications with the Virginia CubeSat Constellation<\/a> spacecraft built by several Virginia universities<\/strong> and deployed from the ISS<\/a> into orbit in July have not been established yet: Aerospace team awaits communication with CubeSat after successful deployment into space | The Cavalier Daily<\/a><\/p>\n

In order to contact Libertas, a \u201cwake-up command\u201d was sent up by U.Va. An acknowledgement packet \u2014 a unit of data that must be decoded \u2014 was sent back, responding to the ground station signal. Due to technical difficulties with the University\u2019s ground station caused by a series of lightning storms, the Virginia Tech ground station was able to listen in and receive the response signal. By achieving this one-way communication, Libertas is currently the only CubeSat which has responded to a signal, showing that it is alive and working.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cInitially from deployment, we don’t know if the satellite is on, or whether something broke,\u201d [Uni. Virginia student Connor Segal] said. \u201cYou don’t know if maybe the antenna didn’t deploy or the board was hit with a cosmic ray, so the initial step is establishing contact and seeing whether the satellite is alive or not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Though the team has not made two-way communication with the satellite, meaning they have not received data, Segal is happy with where the team is at.<\/em><\/p>\n

See previous entries about the Virginia CubeSat program here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. This video shows the deployment of the three CubeSat Constellation spacecraft<\/p>\n

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Three Virginia CubeSat Constellation spacecraft deployed from the ISS on July 9, 2019.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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