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About CUSat

CUSat LogoCUSat is a multi-year effort to design, build, and launch an autonomous in-orbit inspection satellite system. The CUSat space vehicle consists of two functionally identical satellites that will launch together and separate in orbit. Using centimeter accuracy carrier-phase differential GPS, the two satellites will perform autonomous relative navigation. One satellite will capture imagery of the other satellite and send these images to a ground station on Earth for the reconstruction of a 3-D model of the target satellite. The images will also act to verify the relative GPS implementation. Doing so will demonstrate how one spacecraft can diagnose the structural health and configuration of another, a capability that will help enable commercial, government, and manned space missions envisioned for the coming decades.

CUSat is part of the University Nanosat-4 Program which aims to educate the future aerospace workforce and develop new space technologies.

Contact Us

MAILING ADDRESS:

CUSat Satellite Project
B30 Rhodes Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

TELEPHONE:

TEL: 607.255.7483
FAX: 607.255.1222

E-MAIL:

Technical Contact:
public@cusat.cornell.edu

Media Contact:
media@cusat.cornell.edu

Upcoming Events

August 31, 2007

Fall 2007 Applications Due

TIME: 5:00 PM   |   LOC: Upson 212

August 29, 2007

Info Session II

TIME: 6:00 PM   |   LOC: Upson Lounge

August 28, 2007

Info Session I

TIME: 6:00 PM   |   LOC: Upson Lounge

April 20, 2007

Summer & Fall 2007 Applications Due

TIME: 11:59 AM   |   LOC: Upson 212

News and Updates

March 28, 2007

CUSat has been down selected at FCR. The project placed first in the Nanosat-4 competition.

Janurary 26, 2007

CUSat releases a new public version of mission video. View

Janurary 20, 2007

CUSat is now recruiting for Spring and Summer 2007. View Information Session Times and Download an Application.

August 16, 2006

CUSat students to present GPS-Based Attitude Solution paper at the Small Sat Conference on August 16 at 4pm in Logan, UT during the University Programs Session

Articles

November 27, 2007

L-3 Provides Software For CUSat Program

FEATURED: Satellite Today

April 02, 2007

Cornell University Chosen to Build Nanosat-4 Flight Experiment

FEATURED: AIAA Press Release

April 02, 2007

Cornell's Satellite Wins First Prize of a NASA Launch: Far, far above Cayuga's waters

FEATURED: Cornell Chronicle

March 30, 2007

Cornell Satellite to Be Launched Into Space

FEATURED: Cornell Daily Sun

March 28, 2007

CUSat Wins Free Launch for Satellite

FEATURED: MAE Website


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