Marsha Siles from The Advocate News Paper based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana ran two articles this morning about our recent acceptance as a Candidate for the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative, and another on our educational outreach with NP Moss Middle School’s pearlsat payload during our recent flight of CrawSat III. Both articles are available online at The Advocate’s website, with links below.

CAPE-2 NASA Grant: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/Students-ready-satellite.html
NP Moss Middle School’s PearlSat: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/Middle-school-research-pearls-retrieved.html

Copies of the news paper clippings are also available in the CAPE Gallery under Press and Publicity along with older news articles about C.A.P.E. – http://gallery.ulcape.org/v/Press_Publicity/

Special thanks to Marsha Siles for her articles!

The CAPE-2 Command and Data Handling Subsystem has recently received their first single board prototype with an ARM 9 processor running Linux, and are hard at work at running tests, and marking revisions for the next board.

Recently the CAPE team received confirmation from NASA about launch opportunities through the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. We have been selected as one of twenty Cubesat missions to be launched in either 2011 or 2012. Other candidates for consideration include other Universities across the country, Department of Defense organizations, and other NASA projects.

The team is very thrilled about this news, and is doubling efforts on development.

For the full story click here: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/feb/HQ_11-038_CubeSat.html

This past Saturday morning, members of the CAPE team met in the lab to take lessons from Jeremy Guillory in how to program in the C# language. The lesson went well, and a basic foundation on how the language works was achieved. Special thanks to Jeremy Guillory for taking out the time to educate us on this language!

Greetings everyone,

Just a quick update that this past Thursday, (February 5th, 2011) five members of CAPE recently took the Ham Operator Test, and all passed! So congratulations to Jeremy Guillory, Chase Savoy, Patrick Dellinger, Louis Courville, and Eric Rohner! You guys are now official holders of a Certificate for Success of Examination from the American Radio Relay League VEC!

As always be on the look out for a few more updates to follow on CAPE development soon!

Sincerely,
Rizwan Merchant