{"id":199500,"date":"2024-06-18T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=199500"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T22:37:02","slug":"student-built-satellite-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/18\/student-built-satellite-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心视频<\/abbr> student-built satellite selected for NASA<\/abbr> launch"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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A CREPES<\/abbr> student tests components of the satellite that has been selected for launch by NASA<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa student group was selected<\/a> as one of 10 small research satellite developers to launch their satellite into space as early as 2025 through NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s CubeSat Launch Initiative<\/a>. This is the second project led by students in the earth and planetary exploration technology<\/a> (EPET<\/abbr>) certificate program to be granted an opportunity to take their satellite project to the deployment phase. The first student-built satellite was selected<\/a> in April 2023.<\/p>\n

“The two groups of EPET<\/abbr> students securing opportunities to launch their satellite with NASA<\/abbr> highlights both the science and design strengths of the student research groups, and the quality of the EPET<\/abbr> program enabling students to invent, design, and build spacecraft with exciting science and educational outcomes,” said Peter Englert, professor in the Hawaiʻi<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a> (HIGP<\/abbr>) and EPET<\/abbr> course coordinator.<\/p>\n

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Students test components of their small satellite. (Photo credit: Sapphira Akins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Started in 2020<\/a> by HIGP<\/abbr> and the Hawaiʻi<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory<\/a> in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST<\/abbr>), the EPET<\/abbr> certificate program is open to undergraduate students majoring in the physical sciences, such as chemistry, earth sciences, physics or astrophysics, and engineering<\/a> disciplines. The program has empowered undergraduates through hands-on, student-driven development of science payloads and building of small satellites, called CubeSats, that can be launched into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

“Our team is very excited to have this opportunity and grateful for all the help we have had to make it to this point,” said Sapphira Akins, CubeSat Relativistic Electron and Proton Energy Separator (CREPES<\/abbr>) project manager and graduate student in mechanical engineering and aerospace. “We can’t wait to have something we built operating in space within the next few years!”<\/p>\n

The CREPES<\/abbr> mission is a student-led project that began at 糖心视频<\/abbr> Mānoa in 2022 and aims to study solar energetic particle events and increase knowledge of the Sun. When they launch their satellite with NASA<\/abbr>, CREPES<\/abbr> will fly a new type of micropattern gaseous detector to amplify the signals of solar radiation. Data obtained from these measurements is expected to contribute to the understanding of space weather and development of space climatology.<\/p>\n

“The student research success is an outcome of the high quality of the EPET<\/abbr> curriculum, student engagement with the research topics they have chosen, and the resources provided by HIGP<\/abbr>, the SOEST<\/abbr> dean\u2019s office, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Space Grant Consortium, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program of 糖心视频<\/abbr> Mānoa, and private donor support,” said Englert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 糖心视频<\/abbr> student group was selected to launch their satellite to space through NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s CubeSat Launch Initiative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,406,871,1467,1363,92,174,9,1497],"class_list":["post-199500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-institute-of-geophysics-and-planetology","tag-hawaii-space-flight-laboratory","tag-hawaii-space-grant-consortium","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-space","tag-uh-manoa","tag-urop","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t