Wednesday, March 28, 2007
CUSat Team Beats Other Universities, Wins Free Launch for Satellites

The CUSat team has won the free spacecraft-launch opportunity offered by the University Nanosatellite Program by fielding the best-conceived, best-designed, and best-built satellite from among the other universities in the competition. The team designed and built the first of a pair of 20 kg satellites that will demonstrate how one satellite can inspect another in orbit. The satellites use relative GPS for sub-centimeter precision relative navigation and differential GPS for attitude determination. The launch is the team’s opportunity to implement and operate the pair in orbit. For more information about CUSat, see http://cusat.cornell.edu/