GU Orbit wins UKSEDS Satellite Design Competition
Published: 27 August 2020
27 August 2020 - A team of undergraduate students has won a competition with a payload design for the Moon
GU Orbit, the UofG student society for developing satellite technology, has won the UKSEDS Satellite Design Competition on Lunar Mission Design.
The competition run for 7 months and was organised by the UKSEDS. Teams were asked to submit a PDR, CDR, Final Report and a Presentation (this was presented during the competition day). GU Orbit participated with an 8-person multi-disciplinary team involving a variety of different engineering disciplines, led by Alex Cannas. The competing teams were awarded for their CDR, Final Report and the Presentation. GU Orbit and the University of Glasgow won the Best CDR and Best Final Report awards making GU Orbit the overall winners.
The Satellite Design Competition invited students to design, construct and operate a nanosatellite payload system with the objective to acquire as much information from an analogue lunar nanosatellite mission. Students were asked to create a payload concept, trade-off performance parameters and pass through a rigorous review process with panels of experts within the space industry. The competition aims to reach out to students from multiple scientific fields, including, but not limited to, physicists, engineers and computer scientists.
Before the COVID-19 measures, the competition would be physical in a room that replicated the moon surface and our payload would be developed and assembled to the open-cosmos cubesat platform (this part of the competition was cancelled).
GU Orbit was the only fully undergraduate team in the competition, and competed against the University of Cranfield and The Open University.
First published: 27 August 2020
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