DESIGN DAY 2020
For the first time in the history of our event, we held our 2020 Engineering Design Day in a virtual format via Zoom on May 6, 2020. If you were unable to attend the virtual event, please see the Aerospace Engineering projects that participated below.
Please visit our College of Engineering Design Day website, which has an archive of all of our Engineering Design Day events.
Astraea
Team Members: Alex Bailey, Travis Ferguson, Yu Fan Lin, Arnold Phu, Avery Schilling
Formation flying cube satellites for a virtual telescope with unrivaled focal lengths
to study exoplanets.
Atmospheric Characterization Carbon Dioxide
Team Members: Walker Davidson, Steven Deng, Cesar Dominguez, Stephen Yu
Although being an important greenhouse gas, high concentrations in our atmosphere
drives global warming, disrupting the natural climate cycles. SpaceCarbs-1, a 12-U
CubeSat, was designed by SpaceCarbs at SDSU as a reliable and cost-effective first
iteration to support a payload sensor that can measure the amount of carbon dioxide
in the Earth's atmosphere in consideration of places that are known as major sources
and sinks.
Envisat Deorbit Mission
Team Members: Franscis Apalisok, Juan Gadd, Jason Horosny, Arthur Jollymour, Alec Richter
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Mission to rendezvous and forgot the European Space Agency's Envisat as a proof of
concept for future space debris removal mission.
San Diego State University RadSat
Team Members: Trevor Allen, Zach Fischer, Shaan Heugly, Jamie Lynn Blockey, Dalton
Williams
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SDSU RadSat functions as a testbed to allow companies to fly their hardware to a radiation-rich
environment and test the equipment's durability in space. This allows the companies
to sell their products as a "Flight Proven" or Technology Readiness Level 9 component.
This increases the likelihood that a customer will purchase this component, and in
the case of component failure, the manufacture can redesign without disabling a customer's
satellite.
Soteria Laser Communication Satellite
Team Members: Paul Anderson, Paul Fuerte, Luke Hedberg, Jarod Heise, Marcus Reed
Laser communication does an incredible job of outputting mass amounts of data over
a short period of time. It is also much more difficult to intercept and decode because
of the point to point nature of lasers. That is why the idea of a satellite relay
station is currently being developed by the Sat3 team. The proposed mission would
involve a CubeSat structure being launched into the geosynchronous orbit that would
allow satellite to satellite communication as well as satellite to ground communication
in clear skies.