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RAX-2 stopped transmitting beacons over the weekend and is not responsive to normal commands. The cease in normal operations happened mid-day on Saturday, April 20, and the cause of the issue is currently under investigation. Over the next few days, … Continue reading →

Since our last update about radar experiments (January), RAX-2 has completed 6 experiments with the incoherent scatter radars in Poker Flat, Alaska, and Resolute, Canada. Although space weather conditions were active during some of the experiments, no FAI backscatter has … Continue reading →

If you’re an amateur radio operator tracking RAX-2, you may have noticed that the GS client stopped working after a recent Java update. We have fixed the bug, and the updated version of the GS client works with Java 1.6 … Continue reading →

We’ve been quiet on the blog so far this month, but RAX-2 science operations have continued as usual in 2013. Earlier this month, we finished downloading all the science data of interest that has been stored onboard since previous science … Continue reading →

RAX-2 carried out a radar experiment with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar, PFISR, in the early hours of January 18 UT, but no echos from FAI were detected. This was the first experiment using GPS time synchronization following GPS … Continue reading →

We’ve now received over 250,000 beacons from RAX-2! This has been accomplished with the support of amateur radio enthusiasts around the world. Locations of ground stations that have received RAX-2 data are shown below. Any amateur radio operator can join … Continue reading →

A video about CubeSats, RAX, and the work of MXL is featured in the latest issue of the University’s Record Update, published today. In other news, daily satellite operations through the semester break and into the new year have consisted … Continue reading →

Over the past week we tested the RAX-2 GPS subsystem, and it acquired lock with the GPS constellation and performed as expected. This was the first GPS test competed without use of RAX’s primary SD card. The data was logged … Continue reading →

RAX-2 was included in the recent article Smallsats on the Rise as an example of a small satellite that has made unprecedented scientific measurements. From the article: Another example is the University of Michigan’s Radio Aurora Explorer 2 (RAX-2) satellite, … Continue reading →

RAX-2′s current position can now be viewed live on RAX’s telemetry page. This satellite tracking tool was recently developed by MXL and the full version will be made available soon on MXL’s website. The most recent RAX TLE’s are also available. … Continue reading →