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Five students on the McMaster NEUDOSE team spent the past few days at the Canadian Nuclear Association's annual conference. Our team members were raising awareness for our project by speaking with professionals in the nuclear industry.
See what McMaster DailyNews said about these students by clicking here!
Pictured above is the printed circuit board for the burn wire mechanism for the electrical power subsystem. When the satellite is launched from the rocket, the solar panels will be closed and tethered shut to protect from damage during initial tumbling. Once the satellite is stable, this mechanism will activate to release the solar panels outwards to allow for light collection. This is crucial since the solar panels will utilize this light to produce electricity for the entire satellite!
McMaster NEUDOSE is incredibly excited to announce the publication of our first scientific article in a peer reviewed journal. The article, published in Radiation Research: Official Journal of the Radiation Research Society, outlines the NEUDOSE mission and the radiation detector system. This publication is a major milestone for us and we would like to share it with you! To read the abstract, click on the logo below!
McMaster NEUDOSE has been mentioned on the website of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Click on the image below to see our feature under News & Events!
Erica Dao, a McMaster NEUDOSE member, is featured in today's Hamilton Spectator. In her Q&A interview, she describes the McMaster NEUDOSE mission, and its future in the McMaster community. Click the image below to read the feature!
NEUDOSE had the pleasure of hosting Vinayak Deshpande, a former McMaster NEUDOSE team member. Mr. Deshpande presented his very interesting work which included rocket launch simulations that shows how our satellite will behave during and following launch. A video of the simulation can be found here.
Today marks two years since the McMaster NEUDOSE project was first launched! In this time, we have grown incredibly: our team has grown from about 15 students to about 35 students from both the Faculties of Sciences and Engineering; we have been featured in articles from an array of sources such as McMaster Daily News and NASA Tech Briefs; we hosted our first ever McMaster NEUDOSE STARS event; and we have made incredible progress on the design, construction, and testing of the satellite and radiation detector system.
We have learned so many things in this remarkable journey, and it's only just begun. It has been an honour to share our progress with you all, and we thank you for your continued support. Here's to what the next year has in store!
McMaster NEUDOSE's science instrument, the Dosimetric Instrument for Near-earth Orbit (DINO), has been selected as one of twelve international payloads selected to fly in a high altitude air balloon. This September, our DINO will soar above the clouds at an altitude of 36km!
The High Altitude Student Platform program is supported by NASA's Balloon Program Office and Louisiana State University's Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE). We are very excited to work with these groups to launch and test our radiation detector system in an elevated radiation environment!
Pictured here is the circuit board for the command and data handling system of the satellite. This system acts as the brain of the satellite by receiving data, handling data, and transmitting commands to the rest of the satellite.
McMaster NEUDOSE would like to thank Altium for providing licenses for their software, allowing for the design of this circuit board and all of its components!
Alex, an electrical engineering student and McMaster NEUDOSE team member, has been using his talents as a photographer to produce some high quality images for us to share with you! Keep checking back to see more of his amazing work with the mechanical structure of our satellite!
