November 16 marked 6 months on orbit for MinXSS-1! Operations are continuing nominally and we’re still collecting science data. Fingers

This week, former MinXSS student Bena Mero got to meet the astronaut who took the 4k snapshots of MinXSS-1 as

The first paper including analysis of MinXSS science data has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters. You can check

This morning we did one of the last verifications that MinXSS-2 is ready to go: the spacecraft won’t do any

Joy to the world, the data have come! Let scientists receive their dream; Let every computer prepare some room, And

                MinXSS was selected as the 2016 Mission of the Year at the

MinXSS-1 has now been orbit for 2 months! On July 20, MinXSS-1 will also have its 1000th orbit. Party hat time!

MinXSS is now on wikipedia! It’s also now described under “notable past missions” on the main CubeSat page. I guess

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the CubeSat MinXSS. Its one-year mission: to explore strange new flares, to

The MinXSS science team is following the trend of many instrument teams in creating science nuggets. These are little bits of