Standby for Launch
(Photo credit: Andy Kale, Univ. of Alberta) Ex-Alta 1 is currently in Florida awaiting launch to the International Space Station, aboard an Atlas V rocket. Launch is scheduled for 11:11 am EDT,…
2016 CANADIAN SMALLSAT SYMPOSIUM
The most exciting moment of my life happened on the 3rd of February during the presentation of Sylvain Laporte, the President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). I was sitting…
Canadian Space Summit 2015 – November 20th
Today the summit kicked off with the Young Professionals’ Breakfast. Participants had the opportunity to learn about opportunities for up and coming leaders in the space community and industry from…
Canadian Space Summit 2015
The 2015 Canadian Space Summit was held in Vancouver by the Canadian Space Society from November 18th to November 20th, 2015. This year's summit focused on "highlighting space research, building space business, and…
Space Symposium Week 2015
On Monday October 5th and Tuesday October 6th AlbertaSat attended ISSET's Space Exploration Symposium. Monday night featured a talk by Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and principal investigator of…
7th CubeSat Symposium: Day 3!
Friday morning focused on CubeSat Constellations, Future Technology on CubeSats and Technology Demonstrations on CubeSats. These sessions included presentations on the NANOBED mission lab and a presentation on Planet Labs,…
7th European CubeSat Symposium: Day Two
Thursday morning focused on Concepts and Payloads for Scientific Missions. Presentations discussed various payloads, such as the miniaturized X-Ray telescope designed by the UTEF Czech Technical University. The VZLUSAT-1 telescope…
7th European CubeSat Symposium: AMOS and CSL Tours
Conference attendees were treated to tours of the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) and the Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS) at the University of Liege . We began the night…
7th European CubeSat Symposium: Day One
Charles Nokes kicked off AlbertaSat’s presentations today by presenting Grace Yi’s work on Heat Transfer Analysis of the University of Alberta Cube Satellite using Thermal Circuit Analysis. Heat transfer analysis…
The 9th QB50 Workshop – Testing and Our Next Steps
The afternoon focused on explaining key components of the QB50 project and our CubeSats. In addition to some general question-and-answer sessions we had sessions on QB50’s test campaign, on two…