SunSat

Exciting news! ✨ SunSat CubeSat mission is back in action and our team is excited to announce the launch of our CubeSat project, which will be taking off this summer with a scientific experiment onboard. Join us on this exciting mission! 🚀

This year, SunSat is focused on an exciting mission to design, develop, and launch a 2U CubeSat platform with a scientific experiment on board. At SunSat, we have two sub-teams, namely avionics and structures, who are working together to make this project a reality. 🛰

The CubeSat will be launched this summer via a high-altitude balloon in collaboration with Sent Into Space, a Sheffield-based company, and will carry a payload designed to measure temperature, pressure, and air quality in terms of CO2 content. By gathering data on how the quality of air and its composition changes with altitude, we hope to gain valuable insights into our planet's atmosphere and the impact of human activities on it. 💧

In addition to its scientific objectives, the CubeSat will also demonstrate Earth observation capability. 🌍 Our team is working hard to design a modular CubeSat platform that can be adapted to a range of experimental payloads, including one unit of the CubeSat which will be used for an experiment developed by an external team. We are ensuring that the CubeSat is lightweight and cost-effective, while also being able to withstand the rigours of space. To enable the recovery of the CubeSat after its mission is complete, we’ll use a recovery system provided by our partner.

What is a CubeSat? 📡
CubeSats are a rapidly growing field of miniaturised satellite technology which offers a unique opportunity to develop and test space technologies with limited resources. These small satellites are typically made of one or more units, with each weighing no more than 1.33 kilograms and measuring about 10 cubic centimetres in size, making them easier to launch and deploy than traditional satellites.

More about Sent Into Space: https://lnkd.in/eP8tG27G

We are pleased to announce we’re going to the Spaceport America Cup! This is the world’s largest Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Contest (IREC), bringing together the brightest minds from over 150 universities across the globe. We are excited to collaborate and compete alongside SunrIde at the 2022 Space America Cup in New Mexico to launch a CubeSat. Testing our payloads on their rockets is the next step in our journey to keeping Sheffield in space. Big thanks to SunrIde for their help and support, we are looking forward to working side by side for the upcoming year.


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