Student Space Systems Fabrication Lab

We had a great turnout for skating last night (123 People!). Thanks to everyone who turned out and to ESG for sponsoring the event!

MCubed-1 continues to operate on orbit! Her mission would go on to be completed by MCubed-2 since she unintentionally docked with E1P (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Cubed). However, MCubed-1 still holds the record for Michigan's longest-lasting CubeSat!

MCubed-1 Telemetry ...it's all about one thing

All-Hands is tonight! Come down to Boeing Aud. at 7pm with your logbooks in hand for pizza, status updates on other teams, stickers, awards, and a raffle with fabulous prizes if you've completed your requirements!

Engineers from the Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL) traveled to the Peach Mountain Observatory last night to test a new CubeSat star tracker and marvel at the aurora borealis! The 26 meter dish antenna in the foreground will be used to communicate with University of Michigan College of Engineering spacecraft as they venture into deep space!

We were treated to aurora last night in southeast Michigan. The team was up late at Peach Mountain testing a star tracker and captured this photo of the dish and the aurora. A cloudless night in Michigan with stars, aurora, the dish, and friends, what a gift!

Be sure to attend this talk if you want to become a leader in your field!

Join us in learning about the exciting opportunities that await University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering students after graduation! On Wednesday at 6:00 pm, U-M alum Tom Mirowski will be discussing the steps to being successful in your professional pursuits. You don't want to miss out!

Thank you to all of the students who participated in tonight's Planetary Resources info session! In this image, the audience is learning about the awesome projects that Michigan engineers got to lead while interning at the Redmond, Washington office.

CADRE is now ready to be tested in the thermal vacuum (TVAC) chamber that an S3FL team has recently upgraded! We're proud to have contributed to this mission.

The teams is progressing rapidly as we approach the Mission Readiness Review! The hardware has been fully integrated and staking is complete, which will allow us to proceed with environmental and vibration testing this week.

Just one week until the Planetary Resources info session! You don't want to miss out on this opportunity to learn about their awesome mission.

What: PRI Info Session
When: Wednesday, 2/25 at 7:00
Where: 107 GFL

Tune in to the live webcast to watch the Falcon 9 rocket launch her DSCOVR payload to the L1 Lagrangian point at 6:10 pm EST! Several S3FL alums and current members contributed to the systems that make this mission possible, including the grid fins that will guide the booster to a landing on an automated drone ship! Go Blue!

Photos of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket standing on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad ahead of a Feb. 8 launch attempt with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. Liftoff is set for 6:10 p.m. EST (2310 GMT).

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/08/photos-spacex-rocket-standing-on-launch-pad/

Congratulations to our MiTEE team for being chosen by NASA to fly their spacecraft in the near future! All of their hard work has paid off.

NASA Announces Sixth Round of CubeSat Space Mission Candidates Fourteen small satellites from 12 states will fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2016, 2017 and 2018.