Today we’ve launched the competition for Scream in Space, our project to send videos of people screaming into orbit! Find out more and get involved at the competition website: http://www.screaminspace.com/ Further details are available at the news release: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/your-chance-to-scream-in-space-using-smartphone-technology/
We will be at the Societies’ Fair at the Kelsey Kerridge sports centre all day today and tomorrow. Please do come and along and say hello!
The Joey-M flight computer was soldered up this week, all going fairly well apart from some minor rework required on some of the finer pitched components. Joey-M uses the uBlox NEO-6Q GPS with a Sarantel SL1202 passive antenna, along with a small I2C EEPROM such that configuration can be retained when Joey is powered off. …
We got the PCBs for the Joey-M flight computer! These are experimental flight computers using the Micrel crystal pulling radio (see an earlier blog post), along with an Atmel AVR and a uBlox NEO-6Q GPS. Thanks very much to Cambridge Circuit Company for manufacturing these PCBs for us!
Earlier this month we recorded an interview with the Space Boffins podcast about the smartphone satellite project we are currently working on, ‘Scream in Space’ (we’ll be posting more information about this in the coming weeks!). The podcast is now out and you can listen to the CUSF interview here: [audio:https://www.cusf.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/SpaceBoffinsCUSF.mp3|titles=Space Boffins|artists=CUSF] Check out the …
After a long time working on it, we launched our new website yesterday. We hope the change makes the site more user friendly and easy to navigate. We’ll be adding more content over the next few weeks. Thanks to everyone on the CU Spaceflight team who was involved with the new site, we think it has …
