FOCUS | ENGINEERING Brown students’ satellite in orbit on shoestring BY CLAUDIA CHIAPPA | Chiappa@PBN.com
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE a billionaire to go to space. In fact, all you need is about $10,000, some engineering skills and a little help at liftoff. A group of Brown University students has proved it. The team of undergraduate and graduate students from Brown’s School of Engineering has successfully launched a satellite that’s a little more than a foot long, made of off-the-shelf parts, and designed and built on a very tight budget. The microsatellite – dubbed SBUDNIC – was launched in May in partnership with the National Research Council in Italy. It was Rick Fleeter, adjunct associate professor of engineering at Brown, that gave students in his Design of Space Systems class the unusual assignment: construct your own satellite and get it into space. Adding to the challenge: the students only had a few thousand dollars and one year to do it. “Nothing in space happens fast,” said Selia Jindal, a rising senior at Brown and project manager of SBUDNIC. “And I think that’s one of the
SPACECRAFT: Recent Brown University graduate Marco Cross displays a mockup of the miniature satellite a team of Brown students built. The satellite is now in orbit. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM
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