On Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment (MOVE) team of the Technical University of Munich launched a stratospheric balloon carrying the current prototype of the fourth Cubesat satellite mission, MOVE-III [1]. The goal of the balloon launch was to test the current status of the systems of the future MOVE-III satellite. These […]
CDH System Overview for the first MOVE-III Balloon Launch
The Command & Data Handling Subsystem (CDH for short) is the “brain” of our satellite, so to speak. It collects and manages sensor and housekeeping data and commands the other subsystems. For our balloon mission, the CDH subsystem will have no “C”, i.e. no command handling part as our balloon will only be able to […]
The software Power Week
Matti Ukkola is 21 years old and studying electrical engineering in the 6th semester at TUM. He’s been part of the software team and has been leading it for the past one-and-a-half years and this is already his second feature story. Matti: DOSIS is the platform on which we are developing our syste. It is […]
Our new software lead: Interview with Natia (Natalia) Piotrowski
Natalia: Hi, my name is Natalia Piotrowski, but everyone simply calls me Natia. I´m 20 years old and currently in the 6th Bachelor semester of my study course Informatics: Games Engineering. I joined MOVE in October 2020 because I wanted to gain more hands-on experience in Software development. A friend of mine, who had joined […]
Interview with a DEDRA Payload Engineer
Alexander: Hi, I am Alexander Hacker, am 26 years old and study ESPACE in the 3rd Master semester. In October 2019 I joined the DEDRA team. Alexander: As an ESPACE student, this is right up my alley. DEDRA was originally planned as a standalone project with a whole satellite. Since the MOVE-team already has a […]