Violet CUSat

Hi I would like to have information about CUSat as well as the details of the Violet Satellite Project undertaken by CUSat?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

CUSat is a multi-year push to configuration, assemble, and dispatch a self-sufficient in-circle assessment satellite framework. The one satellite framework will permit us test the precision of the centimeter exactness bearer stage differential GPS (CDGPS) to under 10 cm by contrasting the CDGPS route arrangement with the known separation between GPS reception apparatuses. The satellite, being outfitted with a camera, will likewise catch symbolism, of the Earth, the Moon, and the comet ISON, and send these pictures to a ground station on Earth. The nano-satellite is additionally furnished with Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPTs). These will be tried last, once the other mission goals have been checked.

CUSat is the victor of the University Nanosat-4 Program which expects to teach the future aviation workforce and grow new space innovations.

CUSat Has Launched

CUSat propelled on September 29th, 2013 from Vandenberg AFB, CA on a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket. The group has since finished mission operations. Comes about because of the flight trials will be accessible soon.

The Cornell University Space Systems Design Studio is right now working diligently on their next venture, the Violet Satellite Project.

Violet Satellite Project

Classification: College - Engineering

Depiction: Violet is a nanosatellite using eight CMGs to tentatively approve high-dexterity state of mind control and novel CMG controlling laws. Visitor agents will have the capacity to utilize Violet's different CMG designs for test approval of CMG directing innovations. The Violet Satellite Project requires skilled architects from all orders.

Computer Programming, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Applied Physics all assume expansive parts in the outline, development, and operation of an effective rocket.

Frameworks Engineering, Managing, and Communications are likewise imperative aptitudes that Violets program creates in its understudies. Every understudy on Violet takes what they realize in the classroom and applies it to a certifiable designing circumstance.

Not exclusively was Violet a piece of an opposition, however understudies on Violet work one next to the other with building firms from industry notwithstanding teaming up with the Air Force Research Lab. Violet is a unimaginable learning knowledge, and it likewise gives the uncommon chance to gain from and affect the expert airplane business as an understudy.

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Organization Contact

• Registration material still needed:
• UG/GR *:
Undergraduate
• Organization Email *:
heh54@cornell.edu
• Sport Club *:
No
• Organization Address *:
B30-A Rhodes Hall
• Organization Type *:
University
• Funding source(s) *:
CU Department, Other Funding Sources. List other sources below (i.e. CUTonight, ISPB, etc.)
• Meeting Information *:
Wednesdays, 5-6pm, 151 Rhodes
• Selection Process:
• President/Chairperson Full Name *:
Hailee Hettrick
• Treasurer Full Name *:
David Levine
• Third Officer Title *:
Lead Engineer
• Third Officer Full Name *:
William Voge
• Fourth Officer Title *:
Lead Engineer Assistant
• Fourth Officer Full Name *:
Padraig Lysandrou
• Advisor Full Name *:
Mason Peck

Contact

CUSat Satellite Project
B30 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607.255.7483
Fax: 607.255.1222