Lab News
Missions, awards and nights at the telescope.
Updated Oct 20, 2026
Mission ·
SB-1 passes its 8,000th orbit
The 3U CubeSat logged its 8,000th revolution on Oct 2. Battery health and thermal margins remain within plan.
Award ·
Doyun Han wins best student paper
Recognised at a fictional astrodynamics conference for work on covariance realism in conjunction screening.
Event ·
Night observing session with the campus telescope
Twelve students tracked three upper stages and one fragment over two nights.
Mission ·
SB-2 structure arrives for fit check
The 6U structure arrived for a first fit check with the drag-sail canister.
Event ·
Undergraduate orbit workshop
Forty undergraduates used the orbit calculator to design a repeat ground track.
Mission ·
Ground-station software released as open source
The pass scheduler and decoder used for SB-1 are now public under an open licence (sample text).
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