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Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat engineer died on MH-17</h1><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">25 year-old<span> </span><strong>Fatima Dyczynski</strong>, CEO, founder and project manager of Xoterra Space, was an Aerospace Engineer, thought leader, scientist, creative space enthusiast, motivated entrepreneur, public speaker, all world traveller and absolute futurist<span> </span><br>
<br>She perished July 17, 2014 on flight MH-17 over Ukraine.<br><br>Fatima was Operations Engineer for the Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat which carried an amateur radio linear transponder. Delfi-n3Xt was successfully launched in November 2013.<br>
<br>She presented the paper<span> </span><em>‘A novel business model to substantiate the commercial viability of a CubeSat constellation for advanced Earth Observation and monitoring</em>’ at the International Astronautical Federation Conference 2013 (IAC-13) in Beijing and had been planning to present a paper this September at IAC-14 in Canada.<br>
<br>It is reported her ultimate dream was to journey to Mars as an astronaut.<br><br>Watch Let's make space personal: Fatima Dyczynski at TEDxGroningen 2013<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VEbLvhRLwPo?rel=0">www.youtube.com/embed/VEbLvhRLwPo?rel=0</a></div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>Xoterra Space<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.xoterraspace.com/the-team/" target="_blank">http://www.xoterraspace.com/the-team/</a><br>
<br>Vibrant life of young space engineer cut short on MH17 flight<br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/vibrant-life-of-young-space-engineer-cut-short-on-mh17-flight-20140720-zv0wy.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/world/vibrant-life-of-young-space-engineer-cut-short-on-mh17-flight-20140720-zv0wy.html</a><br>
<br>Delfi-n3Xt<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/23/delfi-n3xt-update-november-22/" target="_blank">http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/23/delfi-n3xt-update-november-22/</a></div>
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