CubeSat Program

About

The CubeSat Program is the main focus of our organization and allows students to design, test, and build satellites. This gives members real world experience in working with complex aerospace systems, and reinforces concepts taught in the classroom. Currently, we are working on two full-scale CubeSat missions, as well as two separate projects developing support and testing equipment necessary for these and future missions.

*Note: All of these projects are still works in progress, and as such, information may change or be incomplete, depending on development progress. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us.

Current Projects

LEOPARDsat-1

A 1U CubeSat mission serving as an education and outreach platform for local students, which will also study the radiation mitigation effects of carbon-carbon composites.

HABsat-1

A 3U CubeSat mission using a commercial-off-the-shelf multispectral imager to study harmful algal blooms on the Great Lakes for at least a year.

Ground Station

A small-scale radio station that will communicate with our CubeSats in orbit, receiving and demodulating incoming data on S-band, UHF, and VHF frequencies.

Helmholtz Cage

An open-source, 3-axis Helmholtz Cage design for magnetic field testing of CubeSats. Also includes an "two-and-a-half" degree-of-freedom air-bearing table.