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From concept to satellite instrument in three months
In the wake of an unfortunate event, two University of Colorado (CU) graduate students have accomplished a remarkable feat in space science: they’ve designed and built a new satellite instrument in less than three months. Bennet Schwab, a graduate student in CU’s Aerospace Engineering Sciences department, and Robert Sewell, a graduate student in CU’s Physics […]
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MinXSS-2 communications anomaly
MinXSS (pronounced as minks) #2 CubeSat has not broadcasted beacons (data packets) since January 7, 2019. This communication anomaly started when power cycling MinXSS-2 via uplink command in response to a single event latchup (SEL) on the MinXSS-2 Command and Data Handling (CDH) board earlier that date. A MinXSS-2 power cycle sequence had been executed […]
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MinXSS highlighted in new national planetarium show
A new show to be presented in planetariums across the country has recently released, featuring MinXSS and Chris Moore — a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder turned postdoc at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard Smithsonian — who has been involved in the MinXSS project for years. You can watch the video […]
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MinXSS-2 commissioning complete
Just 4 days, 9 hours after being launched, we have completed the commissioning for MinXSS-2. There are still some issues to resolve, but we are now running in science mode and have tuned our primary science instrument for solar observations. We’ve also of established communications (of course) with our existing ground station at LASP and […]
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First Light for MinXSS-2 CubeSat
The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer #2 (MinXSS-2) CubeSat was launched on December 3, 2018, as part of the Spaceflight SSO-A mission, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The original MinXSS operated between May 2016 and May 2017, limited in its mission life by starting at a low altitude (approximately 400 km) after being deployed from […]
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