{"id":9965,"date":"2015-02-21T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2015-02-21T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T03:06:01","slug":"time-capsule-to-mars-tc2m-latest-on-student-led-cubesat-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9965","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule To Mars (TC2M) – latest on student-led cubesat project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last June<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Time Capsule To Mars<\/a>\u00a0(TC2M) project, which\u00a0involves<\/a> eight universities and several aerospace companies. They plan to send a Cubesat<\/a> to Mars with messages from millions of people encoded digitally in a\u00a0quartz-based<\/a>\u00a0material that can hold digital info for very long times. The cubesat will be propelled to the Red Planet using an\u00a0ion Electrospray Propulsion System (iEPS)<\/a>\u00a0developed at MIT.<\/p>\n

The project recently passed\u00a0a significant milestone with the completion of a technical review of systems requirements:\u00a0Student-Led Mission To Mars Completes Systems Architecture Study at MIT- ExploreMars<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

The multi-week effort at MIT, which took place during MIT\u2019s \u201cIndependent Activities Period (IAP),\u201d focused on developing the systems architecture and systems-level requirements that would allow for technical designs and construction to begin in earnest. The study, led by graduate students Dianna Velez and Iulia Jivanescu, successfully completed initial concepts for the architecture, its systems, and their interfaces. Jonathan Brent Parham, Associate Technical Staff at MIT\u2019s Lincoln Laboratory, served as a consultant on the study.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe past three weeks have set the direction for the rest of the mission,\u201d said Emily Briere, Mission Director and senior at Duke University\u2019s Pratt School of Engineering. \u201cBy developing systems-level requirements and functional requirements for each subsystem, we\u2019ve defined a clear path forward that our university teams can follow. The energy and enthusiasm for TC2M coming out of this study is overwhelming. This team is willing itself Marsward.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The $25 million TC2M mission will be funded in large part by people around the world who upload personal digital media in the form of images, text, audio and video clips for a small fee. For those in the developing world, digital media uploads to the capsule will be offered free of charge and underwritten by corporate sponsors and individual philanthropists.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can put in your donation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last June\u00a0the\u00a0Time Capsule To Mars\u00a0(TC2M) project, which\u00a0involves eight universities and several aerospace companies. They plan to send a Cubesat to Mars with messages from millions of people encoded digitally in a\u00a0quartz-based\u00a0material that can hold digital info for very long times. The cubesat will be propelled to the Red Planet using an\u00a0ion Electrospray Propulsion … Continue reading Time Capsule To Mars (TC2M) – latest on student-led cubesat project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,22,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-education","category-mars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2AJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8139,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8139","url_meta":{"origin":9965,"position":0},"title":"“Time Capsule to Mars” – $25M student-led mission to the Red Planet","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an announcement from the project,\u00a0Time Capsule To Mars\u00a0\"The bold student mission to land a \"time capsule of humanity\" on the surface of Mars\" Time Capsule to Mars\u2122 \u2013 a $25 Million Student-Led Mission to the Red Planet \u2013 to Announce World's Largest Crowdfunding Initiative and Industry Partnerships Project\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Activism"","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8186,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8186","url_meta":{"origin":9965,"position":1},"title":"Time Capsule to Mars launches $25M crowdfunding campaign","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement about the\u00a0Time Capsule to Mars\u2122\u00a0(TC2M): Student seek to make history with Time Capsule to Mars Project http:\/\/youtu.be\/9jFV2O5FIgU WASHINGTON--At a press conference Monday,\u00a0Time Capsule to Mars\u2122\u00a0(TC2M), a project of\u00a0Explore Mars, officially launched the largest crowdfunding campaign in history to realize the world\u2019s first privately-funded and student-led interplanetary mission to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Activism"","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/9jFV2O5FIgU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16999,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16999","url_meta":{"origin":9965,"position":2},"title":"Student CubeSat projects roundup – Nov.4.2018","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent stories about student CubeSat projects and programs: ** Young women are crowdfunding Kyrgyzstan's first satellite \u2014 Quartz Of the world\u2019s 195 countries, 72 have official space agencies, including\u00a0Nigeria,\u00a0Bangladesh,\u00a0Peru, and\u00a0Bolivia. 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