Author: Jo Hinchliffe

  • LSF head back to Orbit with the Qubik Mission

    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…

  • Work Begins on Space Library Projects.

    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…

  • OSCW19, Call for Participation now open.

    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…

  • Libre Space Activity Update 2019-05-01

    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…

  • Libre Space Activity Update 2019-03-27

    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…

  • FOSDEM 2019 Report

    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…

  • Libre Space Activity Update 2018-12-21

    Libre Space Activity Update 2018-12-21

    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…