Monday July 12th 2010, 03:52 -0/+10′ UTC
The launch day: NDTV 24×7, PSLV-C15 live TV from the MCC at SDSC (Satish Dhawan Space Centre)
Talks about Student Satellites
MCC at SUPSI DTI – SpaceLab (room 230, Manno)
June 2010
PSLV Integration
April 2010
Delivering TIsat-1 to Sriharikota Launch Base
November 24th, 2009
Delivering TIsat-1 to the launch provider.
DHL made it finally to Dufferin Str. with SpaceLab’s parcel.
After business, enjoy a few days of tourism:
For those who know what ARRL is, we did not ask for this numberplate, but we got it!
November 13th, 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
May 2009
December 2008
Antenna setup – Phase 2
September 2008
March 2008
September 2007
Don’t worry, we’ll confortably be driving to Monte Tamaro, someone said…
We eventually reached our destination by car, but the next day, everybody had his fitness walk down.
All this for discussing technology and having a good time together with cross “fit-check”.
In this beautiful landscape where were the students? … sigh, exams!
August 2007
Students of DTI partecipating to the
Summer CubeSat Workshop and SmallSat Conference at USU, Logan, Utah (USA)
June 2007
100 years Swiss Engineering Ticino: SUPSI-SpaceLab’s booth
April 2007
The PiCPoT team visiting SUPSI-SpaceLab.
Prof. L.M. Reyneri reporting about the PiCPoT project and lessons learned
Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana makes our project visible:
collecting pictures and comments for the first special on SUPSI-SpaceLab’s work. Tanks to L. Fedele and his crew.
September 2006
Walking tour on Monte Tamaro: 46deg 06′ 13”N, 8deg 51′ 57”E; elev. 1961m
Check a possible location for remotely operated antennas for our ground station – suggested by HB9MAD (AMSAT SBS).
Will we be allowed to be on this antenna pole?
August 2006
Walking tour on Monte Generoso: 45deg 55′ 47.89”N, 9deg 01′ 19.07”E; elev. 1706m
Communication test: how are we able to receive our Ground Station?
Distance: 13.25km; Direct Line of Sight; TX: 10mW, Manchester encoded data
July 2006
Visit to Meteoswiss – Payerne (“station aerologique”)
Visit to the Zimmerwald Observatory and SLR (thanks to HB9SZT)
June 2006
Visit to the largest European HamRadio Exhibition in Friedrichshafen (Germany)
Visit to the RUAG AG Laboratory and Workshop in Lodrino (CH)
Kindly invited to the AVIA 25th anniversary celebration and conferences in Agno (CH)
March 2006
January 2006
December 2005
Welcome Mr. Villa
November 2005
The MEMO for the School Council, which eventually gave his formal approval to the project.
October 2005
AMSAT-I @ Radiant
Donated antennas: HB9CHN (Dr. Ury Erez)
HB9AUS
September 2005
Lab Furniture
August 2005
SmallSat ’05
July 2005
Experimental work on subsystems: Magnetorquer prototype
June 2005
Antenna setup – phase 1
May 2005
Welcome Mr. Kalman (Pumpkin Inc. – CubeSat Kit)
March 2005
A second MEMO with the proposal…
February 2005
Visit Bob Twiggs, inventor of the CubeSat standard (Stanford, NASA Ames – Moffett Field, Ca)
Visit Jordi Puig-Suari, co-inventor of the CubeSat standard (Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo, Ca)
September 2004
An internal MEMO with the idea…
A few papers like this made us curious: I2C, RS232, RTOS, PIC16F877, SALVO, Spacecraft, Student Education, …