{"id":20661,"date":"2020-01-02T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2020-01-02T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:25:57","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-jan-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20661","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Jan.2.2020"},"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

** “Kesari” CubeSat built by Indian students in six months<\/strong>. After launch to orbit on an Indian rocket, the team at the NRI Institute of Technology (NRIIT) at Agiripalli in Krishna district will upload their country’s national anthem to the demonstration spacecraft: Satellite built by students to beam anthem from space – The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe satellite will start functioning once put in orbit. Antennas fixed to \u2018Kesari\u2019 will beam the anthem in Morse code as high-frequency radio waves. The anthem can be heard by ham radio operators and on walkie talkies across the world,\u201d Mr. Salvendar told\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Manoj Kumar said that \u2018Kesari\u2019 will have a lifespan of more than six months if equipped with solar panels. He thanked faculty Sk. Abdul Rehaman and the institute management for encouraging them in designing the mini satellite.<\/em><\/p>\n

NRIIT Placement Cell director N.V. Surendra Babu said that Mr. Salvendar and his team designed the 450-gram satellite in just 45 days. The students said they drew inspiration from Sputnik-1 designed by Russian scientists.<\/em><\/p>\n

** PocketQubes<\/a> will enable satellite projects for educational and non-profit organizations<\/strong> at even lower costs than CubeSats.<\/p>\n

FOSSASAT-1<\/a>, for example, is a PocketQube demo mission recently launched<\/a> for Fossa Systems<\/a> on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket.<\/p>\n

FossaSat is a pocketqube satellite which is being developed using free and open source ethics, more detailed information about the hardware and software involved in this project can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It will create the world\u2019s first free and open source IoT network. The satellite will test the new LoRa spread spectrum modulation, allowing unprecedented link budgets with <5$ receivers, democratizing telecommunications to millions of students and individuals worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Based on the 5x5x5cm PocketQube standard, it will truly reduce the barrier to entry for launching a satellite with launch and development costs under 30000 EUR.<\/em><\/p>\n

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FOSSASAT-1 is built to the PocketQube standard with a size of 5 \u00d7 5 \u00d7 5 centimeters. Image credits: Fossa Systems<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Initial results are generally positive:<\/p>\n

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Although not a full mission success due to our deployable antennas not deploying and our link budget aprox. 25db inferior to planned. We have learnt invaluable data in this first mission for our upcoming missions (report coming). OBC & EPS working nominally for nearly 1 month! pic.twitter.com\/IxfB7dUosD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fossa Systems (@FossaSys) December 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n