Spring 2015 CubeSat Developer's Workshop

Abstract Submission Open!

Workshop Dates: April 22-24, 2015

European CubeSat Symposium - Nanosatellites for Science and Technology Research.

The 7th European CubeSat Symposium will take place September 9th - 11th, 2015 in Liege (Belgium). The Symposium is organized by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and the University of Liege.

We invite researchers to present their work on fundamental science and technology research related nanosatellites in the beautiful city of Liege with a long history of space flight and close to the beautiful Ardenne mountains. The symposium addresses topics ranging from concept studies of CubeSat components and satellite systems to scientific operations of CubSat constellations and related ground segments.

More information can be found here: www.cubesatsymposium.eu

Please account for the symposium's deadlines:
- June 15th, 2015: Deadline for the submission of abstracts
- July 1st, 2015: Notification of acceptance
- July 22nd, 2015: Publication of the program and abstracts
- August 8th, 2015: Deadline for online registration
- September 8th, 2015: 9th QB50 Workshop (by invitation only)
- September 9th-11th, 2015: 7th European CubeSat Symposium

Meet CubeSat enthusiasts and friends!

Four CubeSats successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket with the NASA SMAP primary payload from Vandenberg AFB in California on January 31st, 2015. The CubeSat payloads have been provided through NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program. There is a 3 minute launch window starting at 6:20am Pacific Time. Below is information about each CubeSat including tracking information where available and links to developers' websites. For launch status, see Spaceflight Now's mission status page.

1	FIREBIRD-2	Montana State University, University of New Hampshire, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Aerospace Corp.	1.5U (x2)	Flight Unit 3: 437.405 MHz Flight Unit 4: 437.230 MHz 19.2k baud GMSK AX.25 packet at 60 second period. Each beacon is two separate packets about 1 second apart.	More Info
2	GRIFEX	University of Michigan / NASA JPL	3U	437.485 MHz, <1W GMSK, AX.25 9600 baud, 10 sec period	More Info
3	ExoCube	Cal Poly, PolySat	3U	437.270MHz, 9600 baud AX.25 FSK, NRZI+SCRAMBLED, Morse Code spells out "X03" every 45 seconds	More Info

For those of you supporting us on launch day, don't forget to join the IRC channel. Information about the channel can be found at http://www.cubesat.org/index.php/collaborate/ground-operators.

Preliminary TLEs (updated 1/31/15 for actual liftoff time):

FIREBIRD-2
1 99991U          15031.59861111 -.00003570  00000-0 -19504-3 0 00001
2 99991 099.0984 037.3071 0163136 342.7180 150.8323 15.03559600000011
GRIFEX
1 99992U          15031.59861111 -.00003597  00000-0 -20054-3 0 00003
2 99992 099.0980 037.3077 0161468 342.2744 151.4119 15.03089438000018
EXOCUBE
1 99993U          15031.59861111 -.00003538  00000-0 -19750-3 0 00000
2 99993 099.0978 037.3072 0161500 341.7803 151.9355 15.03037792000011

ELaNa-10 on NASA EDGE Webcast:

Live NASA TV launch coverage of the countdown begins at 4 am PST (7 am EST) and also on the NASA Web athttp://www.nasa.gov/smap or http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Coverage concludes after SMAP spacecraft separation from the Delta II and solar array deployment has been initiated. NASA's launch blog will continue coverage through CubeSat separation.

NASA EDGE will webcast Part 1 of launch coverage with live interviews at 5:20 am PST (8:20 am EST) and Part 2 ELaNa X CubeSat coverage with live interviews at 7:25 am PST(10:25 am EST).

It can be accessed at http://www.ustream.tv/nasaedge

The program will also be carried live on the NASA Education channel http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

A post-launch news conference will be held at 9 am PST (12 pm EST) and carried live on NASA Television http://www.nasa.gov/ntv