The Miniature Student Satellite

Author: Sven Grahn

  • “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.

  • The Piezomotor LEGS

    The short video below the linear motion motor to be flown on MIST being run back and forth with a test command unit. To learn about how piezoelectric motors work, check this out.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ground station antenna system is up 7 Nov. 2020

    Thanks Citlali, Filippo, Joan, Sergio! Click on the link below to see video.

  • Thermal simulation during one orbit

    Thank you James (Tammila)! Great fun to watch this illustration of the temperature on the outside of the satellite.