Mechanical Structure Progress

Deployable Solar Panels!

Our mechanical structure team has been busy! The team's main jobs are to design the main body of our CubeSat including a structural layout and analyze its integrity and structural performance. The team has been working on a model that includes deployable solar panels. They created this animation to illustrate a way in which we could achieve this, we think it looks great! Head over to the "TEAM" page to checkout the students who put this together.

Payload Progress

Check out this 3D rendering of the science payload that will eventually fly onboard the NEUDOSE satellite. This is a cutaway view of the NEUDOSE Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC) that enables us to separate the dose from charged and neutral particles. When NEUDOSE launches, we will be able to measure how much dose astronauts receive and where the dose is coming from. This will enable us to design smarter shielding for future manned missions to Mars!