ROCKSAT-C 2018-2019

Team Members (left to right)

Khalid Al-Sarhan, Jon Chang, Mohammed Baksh, Adam Caulfield

Welcome to the webpage for the RockSat-C 2018-2019 UD Team

Important links:

RockSat-C 2019 website: https://spacegrant.colorado.edu/national-programs/rs-c-home
RockSat-C User guide: https://spacegrant.colorado.edu/images/RockSatC/2019/RSC_Users_Guide_2018-2019_AV_Rev10.pdf

As a team of four CPEG and ELEG seniors at the University of Delaware, we have been accepted by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium into the RockSat-C 2019 program. As a part of this program, we will design a payload for a suborbital rocket. By participating in this program through our University of Delaware Senior Design project, our faculty adviser is Dr. Chase Cotton and our graduate advisers are Teddy Katayama and Ishaani Priyadarshini.

One of our missions for this project is to design a payload to track GPS signal through a suborbital flight. Similarly, we plan on adding to the work of the 2016 and 2018 RockSat-C teams. For example, we plan on recording the conditions of the flight through an inertial Navigation and Sensor System to recover inertial, sound, pressure, temperature, and other data.

Similarly, we plan on building a reusable payload platform for multiple micropayloads. This will be used in the short term for Faculty experiments and long term for micropayloads from high school students.

Some of the Faculty experiments in the capsule alongside our project will be a Gallium Nitride (GaN) HEMT semiconductor by Dr. Yuping Zeng to test radiation hardness, and a manufactured microwave waveguide by Dr. Mark Mirotznik to test its durability to high acceleration flight.

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