Space Projects

  • DORA – Deployable Optical Receiver Aperture, A cubesat test of a widefield laser comms receiver and a Low Frequency Radio Background Explorer
DORA team members with the completed satellite on 28 March 2024. (from left) Quang Huy Dinh, Sid Vaidy, Dylan Larson, MarcO Lalonde, Chandler Hutchens, Sam Cherian, Athul Kodancha, Amy Zhao, Ben Weber, Daniel Jacobs, Titu Samson (photo by Sam Cherian)
  • SPARCS – SPARCS is a 6U UV space telescope mission to measure the UV flare environment of M-dwarf stars. 
  • Interplanetary Initiative Lab – A Space Maker Space for development and testing of smallsats and similar technology.
  • Phoenix – A student education project funded by the NASA USIP program, Phoenix was a 3U cubesat with the goal of imaging US cities in thermal infrared. Deployed from ISS Jan 2020. Currently contactable but not fully functional.