Ex-Alta 1 — very impressive!
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pheloniusfriarHaving worked on a CubeSat design team myself (I was working on the scientific payload), I know what a huge job it is. This is some pretty amazing work and some even more amazing troubleshooting and problem solving since it has been in orbit.
Space oddity: U of A satellite survives mission mishaps to capture super solar storm
Fyi, the Ex-Alta 1 website: https://albertasat.ca/.
Note: As I have written about before, we never finished our CubeSat (it was an entry to the first Canadian Satellite Design Challenge and Carleton did not win)... just so you don't think I've actually built a satellite: I have not. Worked on one, yes; built parts of one, yes; finished one, nope.
Warning: video contains drug use and tattooed nuns in lingerie, somewhat NSFW I would say... but I found the video to be very creative and the cover version quite passable and as heartfelt as you get from these guys.
Mind you if you want to go full NSFW with The Flaming Lips, watch the video they did for their cover of The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" with Miley Cirus and Moby (really). I happen to think it's one of the most creative and transgressive videos I have seen this year (although it came out in 2014, I just saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago), but it's pretty messed up in so many ways. It's on YouTube at the moment (but not The Flaming Lips' site, huh), but I don't know for how long given its content: https://youtu.be/ic3n6sQDoJc.
Space oddity: U of A satellite survives mission mishaps to capture super solar storm
Fyi, the Ex-Alta 1 website: https://albertasat.ca/.
Note: As I have written about before, we never finished our CubeSat (it was an entry to the first Canadian Satellite Design Challenge and Carleton did not win)... just so you don't think I've actually built a satellite: I have not. Worked on one, yes; built parts of one, yes; finished one, nope.
Warning: video contains drug use and tattooed nuns in lingerie, somewhat NSFW I would say... but I found the video to be very creative and the cover version quite passable and as heartfelt as you get from these guys.
Mind you if you want to go full NSFW with The Flaming Lips, watch the video they did for their cover of The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" with Miley Cirus and Moby (really). I happen to think it's one of the most creative and transgressive videos I have seen this year (although it came out in 2014, I just saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago), but it's pretty messed up in so many ways. It's on YouTube at the moment (but not The Flaming Lips' site, huh), but I don't know for how long given its content: https://youtu.be/ic3n6sQDoJc.
