Work in a real space project for two semesters and earn academic credits. Interesting positions open for 2022 Watch this video: MIST- the Learning Experience APPLY NOW! The MIST project is now in its functional testing phase on the lab bench and the plan is to integrate the satellite next year and proceed to environmental tests on... Continue Reading →
MIST – a short intro
Many universities in the world have built small satellites called Cubesats. The KTH Space Center started its own Cubesat project,MIST, on January 28, 2015. All purchased satellite and ground station subsystems have been delivered. The technical/scientific experiments are being completed. The ground station is under construction. Final testing of the satellite is expected to be... Continue Reading →
MIST – the Learning Experience
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LEGS experiment delivered
On 28 September 2021 the MIST project received another flight model experiment for the student satellite! The two gentlemen in the middle hold each a circuit board that work together. Professor Carl-Mikael Zetterling (left) holds his SiC transistor experiment and to the right of him Anders Jansson (from the Piezomotor company in the nearby city... Continue Reading →
“The Sky is Not the Limit, commemorating International Women’s Day”
Remarks by MIST team member Citlali Bruce Rosete at the Mid-Semester Meeting on 8 March 2021. https://videopress.com/v/zj4rCm7r?resizeToParent=true&preloadContent=metadata
The Piezomotor LEGS
The short video below the linear motion motor to be flown on MIST being run back and forth with a test comamnd unit. To learn about how piezoelectric motors work, check this out. https://videopress.com/v/hlu2QEAL?preloadContent=metadata
End-of-semester-meeting, 14 December
Unfortunately we had to make do with a group picture via Zoom for this semester's MIST team in. If we do not count visitors and supervisors there were 29 students present - both students from the fall semester and some that will join the project in January. Names have been blurred except for the project... Continue Reading →
What’s in a box?
The box on the left contains the low-noise amplifier (the smaller yellowish box) for receiving signals on UHF (437 MHz) and a filter (larger yellowish box) to eliminate interference from the uplink transmitter, mobile telephones and FM broadcasting stations. The black device is a surge arrestor to provide some protection against lightning. The box on... Continue Reading →
Solar panel fit check, 5 November 2020
Topias (left in leftmost picture) and Filippo making a fit check with the solar panels and the flight structure. Both made by ISISpace for KTH.
Details about the ground station antenna system
The lattice tower is made in Sweden by Vårgårda radio, the rotator is a AlfaSpid unit made in Poland, the antennas are made by M2 in the U.S.A., the grey boxes contain filter and low-noise amplifiers from Antennas & Amplifiers in Serbia and flexible coax is made aby Messi & Paoloni in Italy. The antenna... Continue Reading →
