November 4th, 2009 - Members of the MCubed team concluded that the camera choosen as our payload was not capable of interfacing with our on-board processors. The MCubed team held a Concurrent Design Meeting (CDM) last weekend in order to summarize the trade study under way for choosing a new camera.

MCubed will be flying a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The FPGA, designed at JPL, will work in parallel with MCubed to analyze the raw picture being taken by our camera payload.

April 14th, 2009 - The MCubed team has made prototypes or engineering design units for all of its subsystems. Scroll over picture with mouse for labels of each part.

March 1st, 2009 - The MCubed team has completed its first Integrated Systems Test in a thermal vacuum chamber. Further testing will done in a Helmholtz Cage and a high-alititude balloon. Both are being designed/built by MCubed students and will be used this coming Spring.

Check out our blog to see daily photos and commentary from the project manager: MCubed Tumblr

April 14th, 2008 - M-Cubed won second place in the Team Division at the AIAA Region III Conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In addition, four members of the team presented and attended the Cubesat Developer's Conference at California Polytechnic State University.

M-Cubed was featured on the front page of the Michigan Daily, a student newspaper:

Trying to build a satellite on the cheap

March 27th, 2008 - M-Cubed has won a grant from NASA Ames as part of their Innovation in Space Systems Competition! The M-Cubed team would like to thank Dr. Pete Worden and the rest of NASA Ames for their great contribution.

March 26th, 2008 - M-Cubed presented their Preliminary Design Review and are entering the detailed design phase of the project.  Attending the meeting were representatives of NASA AMES and JPL through video conferencing.  This was also the official launch for umcubed.com!

The Preliminary Design phase began in September 2007 and shall conclude in March 2008 with a Preliminary Design Review (PDR).  The Detailed Design phase shall begin after the conclusion of the Preliminary Design phase in March 2008 and conclude in November 2008 with a Critical Design Review (CDR).  The Flight Unit (FU) Production phase shall take place after the Detailed Design phase from November 2008 to February 2009, with a final Test Readiness Review (TRR) in April 2009.  The FU Qualification phase shall commence after the FU Production phase in April 2009 and conclude in May 2009 with a Flight Readiness Review (FRR).  The final Launch & Operations phase will begin after the FU Qualification phase and end with a prospective launch window in the fall of 2009.