Mission Goal and Overview

The objective of this program is to help students gain experience in creating and implementing systems into the CubeSat format. Further objectives of this project are to design and prototype systems that can be further implemented into later KSC projects (i.e. KAOS) and to provide an environment to onboard new members.

T-Sat stands for "Tethered Satellite." While 'satellite' usually is understood as something in space, this satellite will still be attached to the ground and won't actually reach anything past the troposphere.

The goal of the satellite is to perform a moored launch with a weather balloon reaching a maximum height of ~500ft while receiving all video and data from the satellite in real time. Although the satellite could go to higher altitudes beyond just 500ft, we are limited by FAA regulations that require all non-FAA-certified devices using radio waves to stay under an altitude of 500ft, thus constituting our goal.