Current Projects

NanoSat - DANDE, http://dande.colorado.edu

DANDE is CU's entry into the University NanoSat Competition and was officially started in January 2007.  DANDE will measure the drag induced by the neutral-atmosphere which is the major perturbation on satellites in LEO and this mission will help to verify model predictions.  Because these operations are crucial to government and private space missions, a need exists to quantify density variations, and to provide in-situ model calibration data, especially at lower altitudes (around 300 km) where such data is nonexistent.  DANDE is the University NanoSat 5 winner.

PolarCube, Website

 

RocketSat VII, RocketSat Campaign Website

RocketSat is a project aimed at developing payloads to launch in sounding rockets, with the goal of creating a sustainable educational program. This project gives engineering students a preliminary taste of the engineering process. RocketSat flies on a sounding rocket out of Wallops Flight Facility in conjunction with the RockSat program. 

DemoSat VI, DemoSat Campaign Website

State Wide program, not currently at CU Boulder

 

HASP, Website

Develop a lighter than air platform to study the possibilities of lighter than air astronomy observing platforms  

THEIA, Website

THEIA is a Telescopic High-definition Earth Imaging Apparatus that was formerly a Senior Project at the University of Colorado Aerospace Department and is now being designed for orbit as the proof-of-concept payload for the ALL-STAR cubesat.