We took MinXSS outside! This was a really cool test. We wanted to know how much filtering we needed on […]

On October 28, 2014 the Orbital Sciences 3rd launch of the Antares rocket with the Cygnus capsule to resupply the

The last 2 weeks have been intense for the MinXSS project and multiple blog posts were warranted but now is

Yesterday we did our first ever antenna deployment test and it worked on the first try (if you don’t count

Yesterday we began functional tests of the entire CubeSat. This included booting up into phoenix mode, waiting for the automatic

Yesterday we built up body-fixed solar panel number 2. We took a time-lapse video of the process and it turned

The first week of August, some of the summer students (Bena Mero, James Mason, Siddhesh Naik) from MinXSS went to

This past week was a great week for MinXSS. The LASP machine shop finished our ±Y and ±Z structural plates.

We now know that our solar cells won’t slide off at extreme temperatures. We put our body fixed solar panel