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NASA NuStar https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18906

Solar Weather & It's Consequences

The sun releases tremendous amounts of energy into space, which can interact with the earth's magnetic field and put satellites at risk. When the atmosphere heats and expands from space weather, satellite tracking systems can fail. When this happens, spacecraft can be "lost" or even collide, making future missions more hazardous. Our team hopes to monitor upper atmospheric density as it changes due to space weather using a novel spherical satellite design to protect satellilte systems.

Representation of a CME blast interacting with the magnetosphere

NASA Goddard https://images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002115

An Astronomical Buoy

We plan to construct a spherical nanosatellite as a sort of "buoy" in free-fall around the earth. Spheres, as opposed to more traditional cubic designs, are much simpler to use for drag measurements due to symmetry. Our design will step out of the box -literally- to push the limits of engineering to obtain high-quiality density measurements.

NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative

NASA HQ: https://images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ202212160011

NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative is aimed at supporting satellitle missions from undergraduate insitutions. We aim to apply for this opportunity and ride along with a NASA launch.

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