Remarks by MIST team member Citlali Bruce Rosete at the Mid-Semester Meeting on 8 March 2021. https://videopress.com/v/zj4rCm7r?preloadContent=metadata
Positions in MIST starting in August 2021
The MIST student satellite Work in a real space project for two semesters and earn academic credits. Interesting positions open for the fall 2021 Watch this video: MIST- the Learning Experience APPLY NOW! The MIST project is in a phase where two-semester student assignments provide the best learning opportunity for students and the quickest progress for the... 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 →
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
Click on the link below https://videopress.com/v/tySHPy9E?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 →
Ground station antenna system is up 7 Nov. 2020
Thanks Citlali, Filippo, Joan, Sergio! Click on the link below to see video. https://videopress.com/v/GV4DtzxH?preloadContent=metadata
