{"id":22894,"date":"2020-10-12T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22894"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:02:22","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-oct-12-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22894","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Oct.12.2020"},"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

** University of\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/strong><\/a> student-built Neutron-1<\/a> CubeSat reaches the\u00a0 International Space Station (ISS<\/abbr>):<\/strong> UH satellite to collect neutrons in space – University of Hawai\u02bbi System News<\/a><\/p>\n

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Diagram of the Neutron-1 CubeSat. Credits: Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo vessel berthed to the ISS<\/a> on October 5th after launching on a Antares rocket from Wallops Island on October 2nd. The Cygnus NG-14 mission<\/a> carried roughly four tons of cargo, including Neutron-1 and several other smallsats for deployment into orbit from the station. Neutron-1 holds instruments to measure neutrons in space, particularly those coming from the Sun.<\/p>\n

Through the 2015 RockSat-X mission,\u00a0Kaua\u02bbi<\/span>\u00a0Community College<\/a>,\u00a0Windward Community College<\/a>,\u00a0Honolulu Community College<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kapi\u02bbolani<\/span>\u00a0Community College<\/a>\u00a0were also involved with the development of this mission. The Project IMUA community college collaboration led to the development of a functioning neutron detector, however it was lost during a suborbital test launch from Wallops Flight Facility. This set back the project until Arizona State University (ASU<\/abbr>) became a collaborator on this mission by providing the neutron detector in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNeutron-1 is a 3U CubeSat [small satellite],\u201d said\u00a0Amber Imai-Hong, an avionics engineer at\u00a0HSFL<\/abbr>\u00a0and ground station coordinator for the Neutron-1 mission. \u201cIt\u2019s approximately the size of a loaf of bread and the data gathered by the satellite will be used to understand the relationship between the Earth and the Sun by mapping neutrons in the low-earth orbit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Neutron-1 is launching on a rideshare mission, which includes other satellites, and will be in space for approximately one year.\u00a0UH<\/abbr>\u00a0delivered the small satellite to NanoRacks,\u00a0LLC<\/abbr>\u00a0in Houston, Texas on August 20.<\/em><\/p>\n