Vermont Lunar CubeSat Project
News!!
Launch
is set for (December) 2012
2011 Collaboration
Dr. Carl Brandon, CubeSat Director, VT
Technical College
Dr. Peter Chapin, CubeSat
Lab Software Director
Jeremy Audet, Student
Software Development & Hardware Interface
Matt Ward, Student Software Development &
Hardware Interface
Dr. Randolph (Danner)
Friend, CubeSat Team, Norwich University
Dr.
Jacques Beneat, CubeSat Team, Norwich University
Kierra Johnson, Electrical Engineering, Norwich
University
Saranat Sanban,
Electrical Engineering, Norwich University
Muzarbek Zholoshev, Electrical Engineering,
Norwich University
Michelle Wegner,
Mechanical Engineering, Norwich University
Robert Martin, Mechanical Engineering, Norwich
University
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COMPARISON OF LOW COST TRANSFER ORBITS FOR A
LUNAR CUBESAT MISSION
Dr. Jun Yu, Lunar CubeSat Team Leader,
University of Vermont
Michael Reardon,
Graduate Research Assistant, University of
Vermont
Emily Pratt, Mathematics and
Economics, St. Michael's College
Stephanie
Young, Mathematics, University of Vermont
Vermont Public Television's Emerging Science
"Out of this World" shown on Wednesday, October
26th at 8:00pm featured our CubeSat project.
It is now online at:
http://www.vpt.org/show/16403
Thank you to
all who contributed, we have reached our goal!
Become A
Partner in the Launch
to help this wonderful
collaboration of several VT Universities/College..
Your Contribution will help to get this
launched!
Send to the attention of Laurel Zeno
VT Space Grant Consortium/
NASA EPSCoR
Votey Building
UVM
Burlington, VT 05405
2010
Paper on Lunar Lander/OrbitorCubesat
by Dr.
Carl Brandon, VTC
2009 Consortia Award to VTC in Vermont!
VTC won the 2009 Consortia
Award/NASA and will launch in 2012
Professor Carl Brandon, Lead Research Team
Satellite
Monitoring Lab
Vermont Technical College (VTC)
VTC won the 2009 Consortia Award/NASA and will launch in 2012
Jun Yu, VSGC Lead
University of Vermont, Jeff Frolick
St.
Michael's College_2 undergrad students
Norwich, Danner Friend
and Ron Lessard, plus undergrad students
See
Vermont Lunar CubeSat Project Information
NASA is announcing a new initiative to
launch small cube-shaped satellites. CubeSats are a
class of research spacecraft called picosatellites,
having a size of approximately four inches, a volume of
about one quart, and weighing no more than 2.2 pounds.
The CubeSats are planned as auxiliary payloads on launch
vehicles already planned for 2011 and 2012.
NASA made our first open announcement to create an
agency-prioritized list of available CubeSats in April
this year.
From that first announcement a total of 12 CubeSat
payloads were down-selected for launch opportunities.
The down-selected proposals include contributions from
the following educational institutions: Auburn
University, California Polytechnic State University,
Medgar Evers College - City University of New York,
Montana State University, Regents of the University of
Colorado, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of
California, University of New Hampshire, University of
Michigan, Utah State, and Vermont Technical College.
(exerpt from NASA website on
CubeSat Initiative )
Professor Carl Brandon, Satellite
Monitoring Lab
Vermont Technical College (VTC)
Part of the Crawl, Walk, Run and Fly Projects administered by the NASA Space
Grant Consortia 0 a 10cm x 10cm student built satellite
To purchase a kit, go to
www.cubesatkit.com or
www.pumpkininc.com
CubeSat Kit™ Pumpkin
|
We have been
selected for a launch by NASA for our
one unit CubeSat
to test our
navigation system in orbit in 2012!
See
Announcement from NASA.
Dr. Carl S. Brandon
Vermont Tech CubeSat Lab Director
Randolph
Center, Vermont
|
Professional Projects of Carl
Brandon, VTC (taken from his website)
http://www.sover.net/~cbrandon/cbrandon/
carl.brandon@vtc.edu
