1st March 2009

A number of sources for potential funding were presented at the previous group meeting. These are extremely promising leads and the group hopes to capitalise on the opportunity. A number of KUbeSat Programme related items have been added to the 'wish list' for capital expediture within the faculty, including a clean room and ground station facilities.

It has also been suggested that a number of component testing stations be set up at Roehampton Vale campus, including:

• A payload testing station allowing experimentation with different camera settings and lens configurations.
  
• A command and data handling station which allows set up and programming of a Gumstix/Linux based motherboard

Preliminary quotes have been supplied for the above items, and detailed recommendations shall be made in the technical reports to be issued soon.

Work is soon to commence on the production of a prototype structure in the laboratories.