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…
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…
The 9th QB50 Workshop – New Launch Details
We have all arrived safely in Liège after several flights, long layovers, and a delayed train. An hour away from Brussels, Liege is the third largest city in Belgium, and the…
Industry Minster James Moore’s AlbertaSat Press Event
On April 13th, 2015 we met Industry Minster James Moore during his visit to the University of Alberta for a press event. This event focused on Alberta's and Canada's industry…