The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS)

The day is quickly approaching! In just 2 weeks, we’ll be delivering MinXSS-2 to Spaceflight in Seattle. We’ll integrate it

After some hardware changes to MinXSS-2 to implement lessons learned from MinXSS-1’s time on orbit, it was prudent to do

MinXSS-1 burned up in the earth’s atmosphere this weekend. After a week of rapid altitude decay due to exponentially increasing

Tonight we took the lens cap off of the star camera on MinXSS-2, put the spacecraft on our homemade air

Just like we did for MinXSS-1 in 2015, this morning we brought MinXSS-2 up to Davidson Mesa several miles away

James Mason has been working on the beacon decoding software to be publicly distributed so that HAM radio operators around

Yesterday, James Mason decided to record the process of stowing the solar arrays and antenna on the MinXSS-2 spacecraft. The

Today, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen visited us at CU. Part of his tour of

February 16 marks 9 months of continuous operations on orbit for MinXSS-1. It has collected and downlinked tens of thousands of