Interesting positions open for 2023-2024 APPLY NOW! The MIST project is now in its advanced functional testing phase on the lab bench and the plan is to have the satellite integrated as soon as possible and proceed to environmental tests on the integrated satellite. This project phase is such that two-semester student assignments provide the best learning... Continue Reading →
Mid-semester-meeting 28 February 2023
Please find below the Powerpoint slides from this meeting produced by the students. The meeting was held at the KTH campus and on Zoom on 28 February 2023 at 1500-1700 local time. Mechanical and Thermal team Ground Station Team Onboard Software Team Attitude Determination and Control team Functional Testing Team
End-Of-Semester-Meeting 19 December 2022
Please find below the Powerpoint slides from this meeting produced by the students and the corresponding video recording of the presentation. The meeting was held at the KTH campus and on Zoom on 19 December 2022 at 1300-1630 localtime. Mechanical engineering Presentation slides Video Thermal Engineering Presentation slides Video Ground Station, Mission Operations/Planning, NanoProp operations... Continue Reading →
Attitude Control Simulations produce results
On November 24, 2022, students succeeded in running hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations of the attitude control of MIST that match earlier software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulations (see figure above). The earlier simulations ran in a laptop where control code, sensors, actuators,and the orbital motion of the satellite, sun and magnetic field orientations are all run in software. These... Continue Reading →
Testing the ground station antenna
The MIST student satellite ground station can be seen below tracking the FunCube-1 satellite across the sky and then goes to a parking position where the satellite will appear on the the next pass over Stockholm. During this pass we received telemetry on 145.935 MHz using the shorter of the antennas in the video and... Continue Reading →
Mid-semester meeting 17 October 2022, presentations
MechanicalThermal controlGround Station/Mission OperationsAttitude ControlFunctional TestingOnboard SoftwareSiC/LEGS experimentSEUD experiment – brief report
CUBES X-ray Background Explorer experiment flight model delivered on 27 October 2022
Project manager Sven Grahn (left) is handed the two flight model printed circuit boards for the CUBES1 and CUBES2 experiment by research engineer Theodor-Adrian Stana (center) and Professor Mark Pearce (right). Software functionality of CUBES and support software demonstrated following handover of the flight units. An engineering model CUBES circuit board sits on the red... Continue Reading →
The SiC/LEGS experiment flight model delivered on 25 October 2022
Professor Carl-Mikael Zetterling handed over the flight model of the combined SiC/LEGS experiment in his lab at KTH's sub-campus in Kista on 25 October 2022. The top left printed circuit board contains the SiC transistor test experiment and support electronics for the piezoelectric linear motor experiment on the upper right. The circuit board on the... Continue Reading →
Some pictures from the presentations at the end-of-semester-meeting on 24 May 2022
Satellite mock-up in transport box "inherited" from another project. "Runner" to be mounted in the ceiling of the thermal vacuum chamber and from which the satellite will be suspended. Attach bracket for the satellite to be used in the thermal vacuum tank. The beige material is PEEK GF30, a glass-fiber re-inforced plastic used as a... Continue Reading →
MIST End-of-semester-meeting 24 May 2022
Student/project manager presentations: Mechanical team Thermal team Attitude control team Ground station team Onboard computer software team Functional testing team Concluding remarks
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