Vermont Lunar CubeSat Project

News!!

Launch is tentatively set for July 2013

2012 Collaboration

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

A 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 

Professional Projects of Carl Brandon, VTC (taken from his website)
http://www.sover.net/~cbrandon/cbrandon/
carl.brandon@vtc.edu 

• Received two NASA grants to build a small satellite, a Cubesat, which will be completed by our bachelors students, and launched in a few years.
  CubeSat
• Download the PDF of the CubeSat Launch Initiative Announcement (176KB PDF)