News
MinXSS-1 v2.0.0 data archive released
The MinXSS-1 version 2.0.0 data products are now publicly available. The links on our website have been updated (IDL saveset format) and the archive is now also available from the NASA Space Physics Data Facility archive (netCDF3 format). The code on GitHub has also formalized the release, so you can see the code that was […]
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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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