NUTS - NTNU Test Satellite. A Norwegian CubeSat project

European Cubesat Symposium

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Then we are stationed at the Holiday Inn Schumann hotel in Brussels. Tomorrow is the first day of European Cubesat Symposium. (http://www.cubesatsymposium.eu/index.php). Our project (NUTS) will have three presentations and one poster during these days. We will talk about our payload, our ADCS-system and our new way of making the primary satellite structure. If you are here, come and have a chat with us!

Semester presentations

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Wednesday 16. of November, we will present this semesters work. The students will give 15 minutes presentations of their projects this semester. We will start at 0900, and we will be in room B333 (Electro building).

Researchers Night

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The NUTS team had a stand at Researchers Night 23. September at NTNU. Go to our Facebook page to see more pictures!

Team members Snorre, Marianne and Shafiq are ready to meet the young high-school students.

Autumn kick-off

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During two hectic days in September, the new students in our team were introduced to the NUTS project and other aspects of Norwegian space activities. The first day guest lectures were given by Kristian Jensen (former NUTS team member) from Kongsberg Seatex, Øystein Olsen from FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment), Lars Løge from Norwegian Space Centre, prof. Odd Gutteberg from our department and Stian Vik Mathisen from NAROM.

The second day we were joined by more of our former team members, Dewald and Asbjørn to join in our discussions. We had fruitful discussions about the communications system, back plane and EPS as well as the ADCS-system. It is good to have support from the persons that actually came up with the ideas for parts of our satellite platfrom.

Some pictures (by Stian Mathiesen) are included below.

Kai Inge, Gaute and Marianne discussing the camera, ADCS and structure

Vilius, Sigvald and Shafiq listen in on Asbjørn describing the on-board radio

Emma, Lars Erik and Dan Erik discusses the internal electronics system with Dewald

SmallSat conference

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Last week we attended the 25th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah. This was an interesting venue to meet with other space-geeks from all over the world. In the jungle between other big companies and organizations like SpaceX, NASA and numerous universities, we also had a small exhibit to show the world our project.

Click on the thumbnails below to download our posters for a closer look.