Kentucky Space

Euroluna: Cubesat for Moon effort?

In September, Euroluna posted this update of its efforts in the Google Lunar X-PRIZE, describing the use of a Cubesat to launch and test systems that would be used on ROMIT, its lunar craft. In its latest video, however, the idea seems to has evolved and the team speculates about a four unit, or 4U Cubesat, that would incorporate command and control, ion propulsion, descent and roving functions as an alternative to the 30 - 50 kg craft it had originally conceived. President of Euroluna, Palle Haastrup, mocks up the idea after the 6:00 minute mark.

Wayne

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Tracking SwissCube live

Southgate Amateur Radio Club is reporting that SwissCube, one of four cubesats scheduled for a Sept. 23 launch from India, has debuted a website to track the satellite after launch. Along with Google Earth and the tracker provided by the space services company Solenix, you can also watch the progress of SwissCube in 3D.

For events prior to launch, check out the blog hosted by ISIS Launch Services.

Wayne

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Kentucky Space presents at CubeSat, SmallSat conferences

As tweeted yesterday, Kentucky Space has been at the CubeSat Developer's Summer Workshop in Logan, Utah, where Anthony Karam (left) and Samir Rawashdeh (right) presented on SOCEM, the sub orbital cubesat experimental mission - see this fit check of the hardware, which will soon fly from Wallops, and an orbital environment simulator, respectively. The simulator was developed by Samir at the University of Kentucky. 

Prof. Bob Twiggs, who is working with Kentucky Space and recently lectured at Morehead State University, also offered a presentation entitled, "A Big Change in Small Things in Space."

Finally, KySpace will debut today at the SmallSat conference. Daniel Erb will provide an overview of the entire program.

The presentations should be available later online.

Wayne

Ten science apps for the iPhone

SEED Magazine lists the top ten science applications for the iPhone, including a planetarium, a science calculator that (some of us remember) looks like the classic HP calculators, a voice-to-text recorder for capturing those elusive insights and NASA's image of the day.

Wayne