Come Monday night, June 4, at 6pm in Durand 450 to learn about summer project opportunities at SSDL.  Pizza will be served, and Mike will do his Mr. T impersonation.  Projects will be discussed, include: Solar sailing nanosatellites Inflatable satellite booms Deployable high gain antennas Software defined radios (both ground and space) High altitude balloon launches Cubesat satellite development Receive AA290 or AA236D credit Check out the flyer!

On 16 April 2007, seven cubesats were launched aboard the DNEPR rocket from Russia.  One Stanford satellite, MAST, was successfully launched and communication with it has been recently established.  Its primary tether experiment is set to commence this week.  A second satellite, Libertad-1, was successfully launched and communicated with and contains SSDL-related systems.  It's flying the first Cubesat Kit in space.  It's power board is a derivative of the Katysat system.  And it's radio was jointly developed with the Stensat Group and SSDL.  Congrats to all the successful DNEPR II Cubesats!

SSDL students presented their latest work at the 2007 AIAA Student Poster event.  Our posters have been placed online.

SSDL is partnering with NASA Ames to fly BioLaunch-B07A, a high altitude balloon experiment. The payloads are a high resolution spectrometer and a prototype Katysat system. The balloon will be launched from Mount Hamilton on March 11, 17, 18 (depending on weather conditions). More information is found online here.