Holy cow, it is here already. This was the last week of my internship at LASP; finally, I have time to sit and write my blog. This week at LASP, we finally got ready to ship MinXSS-2 off for its rapidly approaching launch. For the week, we...
This week, we performed vibrational testing on MinXSS-2, followed by a communications test. After that, we ran through troubleshooting for an anomaly that had come up in a routine performance test; fortunately, the error was a broken cord in the hardware used for testing. On Friday,...
This week, we continued and finished thermal testing for MinXSS; also, we started building a possible replacement battery pack to be included on the satellite in its flight. Outside of the lab, I have progressed in writing the GUI to display rocket data; I have...
This week, I joined in the rush to get the MinXSS 2 satellite ready for launch. I was involved in temperature testing of the satellite, which involved heating it and running a diagnostics test, as well as cooling and running diagnostics. I was tasked with...
I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This week, my main task was getting started on a Python program that would take data from the satellites and make it available to read in...