{"id":20704,"date":"2020-01-06T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20704"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:12:28","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-jan-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20704","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Jan.6.2020"},"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

** Guatemalan university student team’s Quetzal-1<\/em> CubeSat heading for the ISS<\/strong> for deployment from the Japanese Kibo module: Guatemalan first CubeSat delivered to JAXA : Experiment – International Space Station – JAXA<\/a><\/p>\n

On December 3, 2019, the CubeSat “Quetzal-1” designed and built by students and researchers of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (University of the Valley of Guatemala) was delivered to the JAXA at Tsukuba Space Center by the satellite development team.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Quetzal-1” is the Guatemalan first satellite, selected at the second round of the KiboCUBE Programme which has been jointly promoted by JAXA and United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). Since the first orbital deployment of CubeSats from Kibo in 2012, this is the 13th mission of CubeSat deployment using the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD). Quetzal-1 will be deployed from the ISS Kibo in the spring of 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n

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JAXA’s JEM CubeSat deployer on left and the Quetzal-1 CubeSat built by students at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Credit: JAXA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See also\u00a0 An University Team from Guatemala Selected for Second Round of KiboCUBE- JAXA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

** The UC Irvine CubeSat<\/a>\u00a0 team gives an update<\/strong> on their project:<\/p>\n