NTNU SmallSat Lab

limate change and human impact on the world. Traditional Earth-Observation satellites are very expensive and take several years to develop and launch. Dedicated small satellites can be used to provide high spatial resolution within a small field of view to areas of interest with short revisit times. The information from these images can be downloaded and communicated to unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles which can then investigate the areas of interest further using the data from the small satellite. There is currently a team of approximately 30 students and 6 PhDs and 2 Post.Docs. working on this mission. The team changes every year, so over 100 students have worked on the missions since 2017. The team is multidisciplinary, consisting of students from several departments at Mechanical Engineering, and from Department of Electronic Systems and Department of Engineering Cybernetics. This is the first satellite for the students and the first chance to work in a truly multidisciplinary team.