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Course Coordinator:ÌýDale Lawrence
Course Assistant:ÌýRyan Slabaugh
Professional Advisory Board (PAB):ÌýDale Lawrence, Jelliffe Jackson, Trudy Schwartz, Matt Rhode

10 Teams:

• Surrey Satellite Technology US: ETHOS Earth Horizon Sensor
  • Objective: Low cost imaging horizon sensor for small spacecraft
• Northrop Grumman: BLISS Boundary Layer In-Situ Sensor System
  • Objective:ÌýWind sensing UAV for validating local atmospheric model s
• Air Force Research Laboratory/CU: MEDUSA Methane Engine Design for Unmanned Small Aircraft
  • Objective: Engine control and fuel delivery for methane conversion of a small gas turbine engine
• South West Research Institute: ASTERIA Aloft Stratospheric Testbed for Experimental Research on Infrasonic Activity
  • Objective: High altitude balloon infrasound sensor for meteorite detection
• CU AES: MODEFLIER Mode-Demonstrating Flying Laboratory: Instruction and Experiment in Real-time
  • Objective: UAV for demonstrating aircraft dynamic modes in undergraduate flight dynamics courses
• NASA Langley: SPECTRE Solar-sail Pitch Enabling Controller through Root Excitation
  • Objective: Solar sail blade damping control for a cubesat-scale heliogyro propulsion system
• Ball Aerospace: STATIS Systematic Testbed Apparatus for Thermal Infrared Sensors
  • Objective: Non-contact temperature sensor testbed for spacecraft applications
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): RACER RAppelling Cave Exploration Rover
  • Objective: Child rover with vertical descent capabilities for planetary exploration
• Lockheed Martin: PHOENIX Cubesat Infrared Camera
  • Objective: MWIR camera, optics, and thermal control system for asteroid spin sensing
• RECUV: ANACONDA ANtenna with Autonomous, CONtinuous, Data trAnsfer
  • Objective: Stand-alone, autonomous tracking antenna for communicating with a UAV