Work in a real space project for two semesters and earn academic credits. Interesting positions open for 2023 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 have the satellite integrated early next year and proceed to environmental tests... Continue Reading →
MIST End-of-semester-meeting 24 May 2022
Student/project manager presentations: Mechanical teamThermal teamAttitude control teamGround station teamOnboard computer software teamFunctional testing teamConcluding remarks
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 →
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 →
Student presentations at the MIST Mid-Semester-Meeting 8 March 2022
Mechanical teamThermal TeamAttitude controlOnboard SoftwareGround StationFunctional Testing
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
MIST – the Learning Experience
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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 →
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