Aggie Sat Club

Project Overview:

Design cube sat spacecraft capable of intercepting and triangulating incident location of radio signals sent between spacecrafts and ground stations.

https://aggiesat.tamu.edu/

Roles:

• TMS (Thermal, Mechanisms and Structures) team member

  • Created a complete CAD model of the spacecraft

  • Performed thermal studies in SolidWorks to calculate heat rejection properties of spacecraft

• COM (Communications) team member

  • Designed and tested antennas and transceivers

  • Modeled the communication cone of satellite and ground station to calculate probability of transmission success

  • Integrate the communication system with all others systems physically and in software.