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Overview, talks and takeaways of the 4th iteration of the Open Source CubeSat Workshop

The Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2020! The Open Source CubeSat Workshop is a yearly event that brings together enthusiasts from the fields of space technology, engineering, CubeSats, mission control and analysis, and of course, Open Source. The event has been around for four years and has been gaining continuous success and building rapport among Space […]

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The QUBIK Project: Ready for orbit

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is devoted to designing and building open-source space technologies. We always support and promote space exploration, scientific research and knowledge. For the past year, we have been working hard on the QUBIK mission to create a platform on which a series of communications experiments will be conducted, upon the mission’s launch.

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Libre Space Foundation joins the International Astronautical Federation

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

We are proud to announce that Libre Space Foundation has been accepted as a member of the International Astronautical Federation! We are excited to be part of such a great community with which we share a love for Space, Space exploration and research. International Astronautical Federation and Libre Space Foundation IAF aims at “Connecting @ll

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Libre Space Foundation joins RISC-V International as a Community Member.

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

At Libre Space Foundation, we are always thrilled when we join forces with organizations and initiatives promoting the open-source development methodologies.For this, we could not be more excited to announce our membership to RISC-V International. A few words about RISC-V What RISC-V is RISC-V is an open-standard, instruction set architecture (ISA). For those not very

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Deep Learning and Space Weather in GSoC’s 2020 Libre Space Foundation contributions

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

In May 2020, we announced that Libre Space Foundation would be mentoring two projects for the Google Summer of Code 2020. As the students are about to submit their final work, we would like to share with you an overview of their achievements/progress this summer. One of the GSoC proposals is to create a Python

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Gr-leo: A GNU Radio open-source space channel simulator

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

In order to understand what gr-leo is and why it is considered to be a powerful, open-source simulation tool, let us first take a look at why it is necessary. Gr-leo is here to fill a gap and to ensure that the quality of communication between a satellite and the ground station is not impaired

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LSF Project onboarding and the Libre Space Manifesto

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Libre Space Foundation is an organization dedicated to creating open-source, space technologies. Often we come across a project that wishes to join us, or we are approached by exciting initiatives to assist them in their endeavors. However, joining LSF as a project is a process that must meet specific criteria and particular requirements. In this article,

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Google Summer of Code 2020: Announcing the two projects we will be mentoring

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

For the second year in a row, Libre Space Foundation was selected as a mentor organisation for the Google Summer of Code initiative. The application period has closed and the results are in, and so it is with great excitement that we announce the two projects we will be mentoring over the next few months.

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The QUBIK Project: The progress so far

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Libre Space Foundation is devoted to the vision of open-source technologies in space, and for this, we often join forces with researchers, individuals, and teams who share this vision with us. One exciting project we have taken up is the QUBIK Project. A few words about the Project Our love for space has brought us

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Space Situational Awareness – The story so far and an open way forward

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

An essay on the necessity of an open data approach for space. With tens of thousands of objects being already in orbit and hundreds of thousands coming up in the near future, it is no secret that keeping track and predicting orbital attitude and position for those objects will become imperative for viable and sustainable

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Call for students: join us building open space technologies through Google Summer of Code 2020

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Google announced today that Libre Space Foundation is among the mentoring organizations of Google’s Summer of Code 2020. This selection provides opportunities for students that would like to work full-time on open space technologies during their summer break and start participating in the Libre Space community. Google Summer of Code is an annual program providing university students the

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LSF head back to Orbit with the Qubik Mission

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Libre Space Foundation is proud to announce that it is currently developing and integrating 2 pocketqube satellites (QUBIK-1 & QUBIK-2) and supplying a pocketqube deployer (PICOBUS) to be flown as part of the DREAM payloads program on the inaugural Firefly Alpha launch from Firefly Aerospace. Scheduled for launch around the end of the first quarter

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Work Begins on Space Library Projects.

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Last week in Libre Space Foundation HQ in Athens LSF hosted the kick-off meeting of the Space Library project. Papadeas Pierros (Director of Operations, LSF) and Daina Bouquin (Head Librarian at Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) headed the meeting which was joined by many members of Libre Space Foundation. The Space Library is an initiative led by

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Libre Space Foundation partners with Harvard’s Wolbach Library to launch Space Library funded by Sloan Foundation

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

The Wolbach Library at the Center for Astrophysics and the Libre Space Foundation recently received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create new infrastructure to support small satellite missions and enable public engagement with space technology. These efforts are part of the “Space Library,” a new multicomponent initiative at Wolbach that is working to

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OSCW19, Call for Participation now open.

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

The call for participation for the third Open Source Cubesat Workshop is now open. This year the OSCW will be held over 3 days in the beautiful Athens Conservatoire between the 14th and 16th October. The call for abstracts reads as follows; CubeSats have proven to be an ideal tool for exploring news ways of

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Libre Space Activity Update 2019-05-01

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Open Source Cubesat Workshop 2019 Announced This years Open Source Cubesat Workshop (OSCW) dates have been announced and we are excited to host the event in Athens from the 14th to the 16th October 2019. Previous years have seen an amazing attendance from a really diverse range of backgrounds spanning makerspaces, academia and industry and

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Libre Space Activity Update 2019-03-27

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

MIT, Beyond the Cradle 2019 Members of the LSF team travelled to attend and speak at the “Beyond the Cradle” event held at MIT in Boston in the US. This lively conference was focused on envisioning a new space age and as such had a plethora of speakers from a diverse range of areas of

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Libre Space Foundation selected as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code

Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

We are excited to share the news that Libre Space Foundation is selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (aka GSoC) 2019! As a result of this selection Libre Space has summer opportunities for university students who are interested in working on open-source space technologies. Google Summer of Code is an annual

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FOSDEM 2019 Report

3 Comments / Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

The Libre Space Foundations team and contributors attended a snowy FOSDEM to promote Libre Space and to work together on the various LSF projects. Around 21 regular contributors spent a lot of time together working in the apartment the LSF team had booked and it was wonderful to see the community meeting in real life

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Libre Space Activity Update 2018-12-21

Leave a Comment / Updates / Eleftherios Kosmas

Welcome New Team Members This week Libre Space formally welcomed four new contributors to the LSF team, these are; Jo Hinchliffe Fabian Schmidt Patrick Dohmen Cees Bassa All four of them have been contributing tirelessly to our projects, inmeaningful ways, therefore it was only right to welcome them and include them as team contributors. Busy times in the SatNOGs community It’s been a

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