Students and Faculty,

Here is my list of practical student small satellite projects....
A few are good for EE and WEPS too.   Possible form factors are:

*  1 foot cubes for Shuttle or Hitchihker (like PCsat)
*  Rack mount ISS experiments in the internal Ham radio ISS rack
*  External ISS platform experiments on the external Ham Radio platform
*  4" cubesats via Stanford program
*  Embedded payloads on other missions (STARSHINE and MOST)

UHF-AM-SAT relay - Allows use of existing UHF AM radios on small boats
Mode A/V         - Analog Transponder usable with $149 Radio Shack radio
GTO attached sat - Attached for ride on GTO stage 
SPASUR Tracker   - CUBESAT to enhance 218MHz NAVSPASUR radar tracking
Solar Sail       - Carnegie Mellon project needs comm payload
Starshine        - Design a payload for the next Starshine mission
ThermoSat        - wht/blk surfaces & Peltier junctns for thermal power
MagneSat         - A magnetorquer attitude control system and LAB Model
PicoSat          - What is smallest 6 mo life payload we can build?
PSK-31 Satellite - Supports dozens of simultaneous users with only a PC
OPTI-sat         - Optical (visual) communications to youth
AttitudeSat      - Control Sys for Bagaria's Air Bearing control model
AERO Tracker     - Simulated video sat on USNA AERO training aircraft
ISS Payload      - Experiment payload for ISS Amateur Radio pallet 
Gravity/Gradient - Better comms attitude.  Piano wire and golf ball?
Gemini-Sats      - Separated/Tethered XMT/RCV For in-band voice relay 
CameraSAT        - Live video downlink (S-band)
RelaySat         - Voice transponder satellite for cheap ground stns
Porta-Station    - Design a briefcase portable Satellite Ground station
Car-tracker      - A steerable car roof satellite tracking antenna
FLEETSAT/UFO     - Get us access to a 5 khz channel on either bird
SimSat           - USNA Track & recover NASA Goddard Balloon SIMSAT 
AeroStat         - USNA Balloon Payload (3 hour mission over DELMARVA)
PartyStat        - Design smallest payload for launch by party balloon
AO40 Ground Stn  - For latest BIG Amateur Satellite in Molynia orbit
X-Band Gnd Stn   - For AO40 downlink experiments also other microwaves
Radio Astronomy  - Add feeds to 12m dish for interferrometry
Lander-Rover     - Remote controlled planetary explorer 
Solar Trcker     - Tracking Algorithms for 12 meter dish
Bi-Static-Radar  - Use 12m dish to detect aircraft passively 
Aero-Tracker     - Use 12m dish to track USNA Aircraft with GPS
Aircraft Telmtry - Build smal telemetry system for DesignBuildFly craft

These are just some of the ideas we think we can support here at the USNA
Satellite lab.
 
Bob Bruninga, Satellite Lab
Rickover 122
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