OUR PROJECTS
CUBICS
CUBICS is the successor initiative to the Canadian CubeSat Project. It is a CSA program which provides post-secondary students the opportunity to conduct an end-to-end space mission. UVSD is partnered with the Centre for Aerospace Research for UVic's project, Skya'anaSat.
Skya'anaSat will be a 3U cubesat which will demonstrate a novel approach to ionospheric measurement through transionospheric sounding by satellite. The project started in June 2023.
SatNOGS
A SatNOGs listen only ground station located at the University of Victoria on the roof of the Engineering Lab Wing, designed, built, operated, and maintained by UVic Satellite Design in partnership with the UVic Propagation Lab. Currently it has two antennas, both are student built turnstiles antennas.
Canadian CubeSat Project
The Canadian CubeSat Project was an initiative brought forward by the Government of Canada to increase the interest and skills of Canadian students in space technology. It provided teams of professors and students the funding and expertise to design and build their own cube satellite.
ORCASAT was a collaboration between UVic and UBC to develop a 2U cubesat as part of this initiative. It launched in November 2022 and operated from December 2022 to July of 2023.
