Pernicka, M-SAT win grant for cubesat project
Posted by Kimber Crull
Early CAD rendering of the DEXSTR (Doppler EXperiment for Search, Tracking, and Rescue) spacecraft.
Dr. Hank Pernicka, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and the Missouri S&T Satellite Research Team (M-SAT) recently received a $275k grant from the University Nanosatellite Program to compete with 10 other universities to design, assemble and test a small spacecraft (“cubesat”) for an opportunity to launch into Earth orbit. The M-SAT team is developing a mission for the cubesat in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Search and Rescue office that will use the Doppler shift received from a beacon on Earth’s surface to locate its position for rescue purposes.
The University Nanosatellite Program is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate.
Posted by Kimber Crull
