We have now completed commissioning of the spacecraft. That means that we understand how it is performing on orbit, MinXSS is

The spacecraft is generating engineering and science data all the time. It stores that data into an onboard SD card.

We’ve been noodling with the ground station a lot these last 3 weeks since MinXSS has been deployed. We’re still

Here’s what the very first, very rough, solar soft x-ray spectrum from MinXSS looks like. The GOES XRS measurement is

Yesterday, early in the morning, we sent the command to put MinXSS in science mode. The main change in this mode

MinXSS is now in fine pointing mode. That means that Blue Canyon Tech’s attitude determination and control system (ADCS) is

We’ve now got automation of the ground station working thanks to the development work of Colden Rouleau. We ran some

We got our first few commands through to the spacecraft! We were able to stream real time ADCS telemetry and