Washington students to make satellite history with HuskySat-1. Students are often told words of encouragement, such as “the sky is the limit.” These University of Washington students opted to shoot for the stars instead. “It will be exciting once it’s in orbit,” Paige Northway said in a press statement. “To me, the completion will be when we can get data from the satellite and send instructions back.” Northway is a doctoral student in Earth and Space Sciences program at UW. She is a member of a team, working out of the Husky Satellite Lab, that took five years to develop HuskySat-1, a roughly 7 pound satellite that is smaller than a loaf of bread, according to UW. It’s three cube units, each roughly measuring 3 inches per side.
The ARRL also has a news story, AMSAT Says HuskySat-1 Paving the Way for Further Cooperation, on HuskySat-1.
First PHL-made nanosatellite presented. The first nanosatellite being built in the Philippines will soon join the Maya-1 cube satellite (cubesat), which is now in orbit in space. The 10 cm3 nanosatellite is one of 10 new small satellites that are in the laboratory and at different stages of development….The new 1-kilogram cubesat is being built by eight engineering scholars under the Space Science and Technology Proliferation through University Partnerships (STeP-UP) of the the Space Technology and Applications Mastery, Innovation and Advancement (Stamina4Space) Program of the DOST….Marciano said besides the satellite images, Diwata-2’s amateur radio unit (ARU) can be used by amateur radio users. He said Diwata-2’s signal can be used by people using ham radio if there is no cell phone signal, or if one is in a secluded place, and especially during disaster where cell phone signals are out.
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