{"id":22506,"date":"2020-08-11T14:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22506"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:53:03","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-aug-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22506","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Aug.11.2020"},"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

** Univ. Southern California students to build CubeSats in partnership with Lockheed Martin and Momentus<\/strong>. For the La Jument<\/em> project, students in\u00a0 USC’s SERC<\/a> (Space Engineering Research Center) nanosatellite program will assemble four spacecraft using payloads with the LM’s \u00a0SmartSat technology<\/a>.\u00a0 This technology uses a<\/p>\n

software-defined satellite architecture on both their payload and bus. SmartSat lets satellite operators quickly change missions while in orbit with the simplicity of starting, stopping or uploading new applications.<\/em><\/p>\n

The system is powered by the NVIDIA\u00ae Jetson™<\/a> platform built on the CUDA-X™ capable software stack and supported by the NVIDIA JetPack™ software development kit (SDK), delivering powerful AI at the edge computing capabilities to unlock advanced image and digital signal processing.<\/em><\/p>\n

The spacecraft will launch over the next two years:<\/p>\n

The first of the four La Jument nanosatellites is a student-designed and built 1.5U CubeSat that will be launched with a SmartSat payload to test the complete system from ground to space, including ground station communications links and commanding SmartSat infrastructure while in-orbit. The second is a 3U nanosat, the size of three small milk cartons stacked on top of each other, with optical payloads connected to SmartSat that will allow AI\/ML in-orbit testing. Finally, two 6U CubeSats are being designed jointly with USC that will be launched mid-2022. The pair will launch together and incorporate future research from USC and Lockheed Martin, including new SmartSat apps, sensors and bus technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Momentus<\/a> has arranged for the first CubeSat to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for Feb. 2021. A Momentus space tug<\/a> will take it to a 550 km high sun synchronous orbit.<\/p>\n

More about the project:<\/p>\n