May 2017: As the Alfvén Laboratory renovation that started a year ago nears its end it is possible for MIST to move into a dedicated office and lab. The desks of project manager Sven Grahn and project assistant Agnes Gårdebäck are on the left. Further to the right are the electronics work bench, the laminar flow... Continue Reading →

May 2017: On the left students Björn Ordoubadian and Marcus Ackland assemble the 3D-printed parts and a mock cable harness into the I.S.I.S. structure. On the right project manager Sven Grahn holds the finished product.

Students have started running communications tests between the Elveti (by Solenix GmbH) Mission Control Software (in a laptop) and the on-board computer (iOBC) via the RF Checkout Box and the onboard transceiver (TRXVU). The Checkout Box, iOBC and TRXVU are all Products of Innovative Solutions In Space B.V. Students Johan Engberg and Minjia Chen do the... Continue Reading →

The MIST project will have a home base in the accelerator lab in the Alfvén laboratory.

Agnes and Kavi examine the details of the structure procured from ISIS to better understand how to mount experiments.

The 3U structure from our subsystem supplier, ISIS, arrived on March 21, 2016. One little step forward.

On Sunday 7 February, Daniel Sjöström and Sven Grahn paid a visit to radio amateur Lars Thunberg, SM0TGU, in Sollentuna outside Stockholm. He specializes in receiving telemetry from radio amateur satellites, nowadays mostly Cubesats. He has an antenna setup for 2 meter (145.8-146.0 MHz amateur satellite band) och 70 cm (435-438 MHz amateur satellite band) that... Continue Reading →

After the kick-off for Student Team 3 on 21 January 2016 activity for me has been somewhat hectic. Here are some glimpses of what has been going on: We have been able to get the Solid Edge CAD software for three computers in the library at the Space and Plasma Physics Group. The CAD team... Continue Reading →

Desirée has computed the lifetime due to drag of MIST if it tumbles randomly. She used NASA's Debris Assessment Software and looked at two different satellite masses - 3 kg and the maximum allowed for a 3U Cubesat, i.e. 4 kg. The assumed starting date for the analysis was 21 June 2017. As you can see... Continue Reading →