{"id":21706,"date":"2020-04-24T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21706"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:53:07","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-april-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=21706","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup -April.24.2020"},"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

** Mexico university students to build CubeSat<\/strong> in collaboration with NanoAvionics<\/a> and the Mexian Space Agency: NanoAvionics and Mexican Space Agency Introduce a Nanosatellite Pilot Project for Future Space Missions | NanoAvionics<\/a><\/p>\n

Nanosatellite manufacturer and mission integrator NanoAvionics, together with the Mexican Space Agency (AEM)<\/a> and students from the Polytechnic University of Atlacomulco<\/a> will develop the first nanosatellite for the State of Mexico, (one of most important states of the country), the AtlaCom-1. Building the nanosatellite is part of a pilot project to establish a nanosatellite infrastructure for future space missions designed and built by Mexico\u2019s youth.<\/em><\/p>\n

The project, starting in September 2020, is a testimony to the importance of space applications enabled by nanosatellites, which are rapidly becoming essential to national economies. Together, the Mexican Space Agency, led by Dr. Salvador Landeros, appointed director general of AEM in 2019, and NanoAvionics are fostering the advanced skills that Mexican youth will need to bring the country\u2019s space industry forward.<\/em><\/p>\n

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NanoAvionics\u2019 engineers will share their space mission experience and help the students and faculty at the Polytechnic University of Atlacomulco to develop the ATLA-1. The company\u2019s multi-purpose nanosatellite buses are pre-configured and pre-qualified, allowing mission teams to focus on their payloads. As a result, technology development missions can produce results quicker and satellite constellations can enter commercial service much faster. The project is further supported by the Mayor of Atlacomulco, Roberto T\u00e9llez-Monroy, an engineer with a passion for space technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

** AzTechSat-1<\/a> was the first Mexican university student built CubeSat to reach orbit<\/strong>. See the posting here<\/a> from last December about the project and a February post<\/a> about the deployment of the satellite from the ISS.<\/p>\n

The AzTechSat-1 mission is led by the Universidad Popular Aut\u00f3noma del Estado de Puebla, or UPAEP, in Puebla, Mexico. It is providing students and professors an opportunity to lead and participate in their first spaceflight mission. The multidisciplinary team of students at UPAEP was mentored by engineers and project managers at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley. They learned to use NASA methodologies for spaceflight project management and systems engineering. The students designed, built, tested and delivered a flight-certified CubeSat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Communications were establish with AzTechSat-1 after its deployment. The primary mission for the satellite is to demonstrate satellite-to-satellite communications by contacting a GlobalStar satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n