{"id":23169,"date":"2020-12-09T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23169"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:01:56","slug":"student-and-amateur-cubesat-news-roundup-dec-9-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23169","title":{"rendered":"Student and amateur CubeSat news roundup – Dec.9.2020"},"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

** Two Brigham Young University student Cubesats set to go to orbit on Virgin Orbit<\/a> LauncherOne<\/strong> flight this month: How BYU\u2019s work with NASA will allow satellites to take selfies in space – Deseret News<\/a><\/p>\n

For the last five years, students at the BYU College of Engineering have been dreaming up, designing and building two tiny satellites. And after a two-year delay in the launch of NASA\u2019s ELaNa 20 mission, the cube-like modules are finally ready to head to space.<\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201cCubeSats\u201d have cameras attached to each of their six sides and are designed to take photos of other satellites, giving NASA a cheap method of visually examining the exteriors of spacecraft.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is you carry up one of these sort of selfie cameras,\u201d said David Long, an engineering professor at BYU, \u201cand when you needed to get a picture of your spacecraft \u2014 it is very inexpensive; it\u2019s disposable \u2014 you kind of toss it out the window, conceptually, you know, you just deploy it, and it takes pictures of your main spacecraft. And then it just drifts off into space.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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BYU Passive Inspection CubeSat. Credits: BYU PICS<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n