TU SAT 1

      A group of Taylor University students and faculty are currently developing a communication Cube-Sat to be launched in 2002. TU Sat 1 incorporates powerful microelectronics, a gravity gradient boom, and a low-cost email communications system capable of operating at a 115-kbps rate near 0.9 GHz. The goal is to demonstrate low cost communication for remote villages in third world countries. TU Sat 1 also includes a magnetometer and Langmuir probe to measure plasma density and temperature at an altitude of 650 km. Furthermore, TU Sat 1 provides students with the needed experience and skills to be on the leading edge of innovation.      

Send a Message into Space!!!

Updated: August 1, 2001

TU SAT will be sent into orbit aboard a Russian ICBM missile, to be  launched from Kazakhstan in May of  2002. 

• Space Research at TU

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Click on the image above to see an
animation of deployment of satellite.