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Welcome to the SSI Satellites Team! Whether you're an incoming frosh, tired old senior, graduate student, alumni, or even not a part of the Stanford community, we're glad you're here. Our current mission is SAMWISE, a CubeSat with a huge number of technological advancements compared to our prior missions. Our Satellite Team Leads are

@Spencer Wallace and @Ashley Raigosa and @Theo Makler

Getting Started with Satellites

Stanford Affiliated ☀️

If you're a Stanford student, professor, or affiliate we'd love for you to join the SSI Sats community! Once you've joined our slack messaging hub, join the satellites channel and don't hesitate to reach out!

Outside Stanford ❄️

If you're not affiliated with Stanford but are interested in the team and our project, we'd still love to have you! Please email the team leads Ashley Raigosa ([email protected]), Spencer Wallace ([email protected]), or Theo Makler ([email protected]).

Onboarding Events Calendar

Check out the SSI Updated General Event Calendar to stay up-to-date on all of our onboarding events! This is still a work-in-progress so stay tuned for more information :)

Our Website: saplingsat.org

One of our main goals of the satellites team is to increase accessibility to space, and while we can have made a ton of progress on this from an engineering standpoint, it's pretty limited unless we get the word out. So we made a website! At saplingsat.org, you'll be able to find everything from our project overview to how to assemble our main flight computer. If you wanna take a deep dive into our software repositories or just brush up on terminology, the website is the place for you :)

Current Mission: SAMWISE

Our current mission is SAMWISE, a 2U CubeSat (10cm x 10cm x 20cm rectangle) with a bunch of super cool technologies. Stay tuned.

Subteams

Building a satellite is definitely not a simple task! There's a lot that goes into each one, so to help streamline things we divide up into subteams. Each of these subteams has a specific task associated with the satellite, and together they work together to make the mission a success! Below you'll find descriptions of each subteam, ways to contact our current subteam leads, and links to their respective Slack channels.

Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS)

Slack Channel: satellites-adcs

Subteam Lead: Grant Regen

Guidance, Navigation, and Control (Aerospace Engineering/CS/EE/ME) — Learn how to guide our satellite where practical physics and coding meet, control pointing of the system by interacting with the Earth's magnetic field, and unspin the satellite after a rocket shoots it out.

Begin Here

Avionics

Slack channel: satellites-avionics

Subteam Lead: Hunter Liu

Avionics (Electrical Engineering) — Learn electrical engineering in space, make your own camera, radio, solar panels, and design your own custom circuit boards (we'll even teach you how to make rave lighting for your room).

Begin Here

Payload

Slack channel: satellites-payload

Subteam Lead: Niklas Vainio

Software

Slack channel: satellites-software

Subteam Lead: Kien Deshpande

Software (Computer Science) — Learn to program our onboard flight computer and science computer, write machine learning models, and design a full software architecture.
- Begin Here

Structures

Slack channel: satellites-structures

Subteam Leads: Jacob Mukobi, Siolé Mayeski, and Jeremy Merritt

Structures (Mechanical Engineering) — Learn to create the structure of our satellite via aluminum laser-cutting, 3D printing, and computer-aided design (CAD)

Begin Here

Systems Engineering

Slack channel: satellites-systems

Subteam Lead: kinda everyone!

Satellite Systems Engineering — Talk with top space representatives in both government and industry, attend local satellite and space conferences, and learn how to launch a satellite safely and legally 😉. Also, check out the Policy team.

Past Missions

Sapling Giganteum: 2022–2023

Also referred to as Sapling-2, this was the second of the Sapling series of 1U CubeSats (better descriptions to come + photos!)

Sapling Sempervirens: 2020–2023

Also referred to as Sapling-1, this was the first of the Sapling 1U cubesats (better descriptions to come + photos!)

Sequoia: 2019–2020

Sequoia was a planned 3U CubeSat that would demonstrate on-board image classification and processing with updateable machine learning models. The goal of the project was to obtain a high volume of scientifically important imagery for ecological and climatology research. Researchers many times have no need of images saturated with clouds or uninteresting areas—so why not filter them out with convolutional neural networks? We will retrain Sequoia’s deep learning with images taken by the satellite, uplinking improvements. SSI worked on developing deep learning models for forest fire risk assessment and detection and a number of other applications. The mission architecture is user definable with the operator specifying desirable image locations or types and resolutions, and the satellite maximizing delivery of fully open-source images.

Project materials can be found in the Sequoia GitHub.

POINTR: [year]–[year]

The Satellites Team developed various Optical Communications technologies, culminating in the launch of POINTR. This was a 1U segment of a 3U CubeSat launched in 2018, but it unfortunately never connected with ground control due to improper orbital insertion from the launch provider.

Additional Projects

In addition to projects taken on by the team as a whole, satellites members have worked in Stanford faculty labs to build:

SNAPS, the Stanford NAno Picture Satellite, a 1/4U imaging CubeSat deployed from the ISS in 2016
QB50 Discovery, Stanford's submission to an international 50-member CubeSat constellation
Morgana, a CubeSat designed to study high energy particles in the upper atmosphere. (Cancelled)

Subcategories

This category has only the following subcategory.

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Optical Communications

Pages in category "Satellites"

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-{{Nowrap| Hey! Welcome to the Stanford Satellite Team! Whether you're an incoming frosh, alumni, PhD, or even not a part of the Stanford community, we're glad you're here. Our current mission [[ Sequoia | '''Project Sequoia''']] is a 3U (about the size of a long shoe box) fully in-house imaging satellite that will demonstrate CubeSats as a user-defined service with changeable machine learning models. Current Satellite Team Leads: }} {{Leadership|Satellites = true}}
+{{Nowrap|Welcome to the SSI Satellites Team! Whether you're an incoming frosh, tired old senior, graduate student, alumni, or even not a part of the Stanford community, we're glad you're here. Our current mission is SAMWISE, a CubeSat with a huge number of technological advancements compared to our prior missions. Our Satellite Team Leads are }} {{Leadership|Satellites = true}}
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+== Getting Started with Satellites ==
 ===Stanford Affiliated ☀️===
-If you're a Stanford student, professor, or affiliate we'd love for you to [[How_to_Join_SSI|join the SSI Sats community]]! Once you've joined our slack messaging hub, join the [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites satellites channel] and don't be shy.
+If you're a Stanford student, professor, or affiliate we'd love for you to [[How_to_Join_SSI|join the SSI Sats community]]! Once you've joined our slack messaging hub, join the [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites satellites channel] and don't hesitate to reach out!
 ===Outside Stanford ❄️===
-If you're not affiliated with Stanford but are interested in the team and our project, please email the team leads Akasha Hayden and Ian Chang (akasha@stanford.edu, ianchang@standford.edu).
+If you're not affiliated with Stanford but are interested in the team and our project, we'd still love to have you! Please email the team leads Ashley Raigosa ([email protected]), Spencer Wallace (spenwall@stanford.edu), or Theo Makler (theo24@stanford.edu).
-== Sub-Teams ==
-=== Teams ===
+=== Onboarding Events Calendar ===
-*[[Satellite Structures#Heading|'''Structures (Mechanical Engineering)''']] — Learn to create the structure of our satellite via aluminum laser-cutting, 3D printing, and computer-aided design (CAD)
+Check out the [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/[email protected]&ctz=America/Los_Angeles '''SSI Updated General Event Calendar'''] to stay up-to-date on all of our onboarding events! This is still a work-in-progress so stay tuned for more information :)
-**'''[[Satellite Structures Onboarding | Begin Here]]'''
+== Our Website: [https://saplingsat.org saplingsat.org] ==
+One of our main goals of the satellites team is to increase accessibility to space, and while we can have made a ton of progress on this from an engineering standpoint, it's pretty limited unless we get the word out. So we made a website! At [https://saplingsat.org saplingsat.org], you'll be able to find everything from our project overview to how to assemble our main flight computer. If you wanna take a deep dive into our software repositories or just brush up on terminology, the website is the place for you :)
+== Current Mission: SAMWISE ==
+Our current mission is SAMWISE, a 2U CubeSat (10cm x 10cm x 20cm rectangle) with a bunch of super cool technologies. Stay tuned.
+== Subteams ==
+Building a satellite is definitely not a simple task! There's a lot that goes into each one, so to help streamline things we divide up into '''subteams'''. Each of these subteams has a specific task associated with the satellite, and together they work together to make the mission a success! Below you'll find  descriptions of each subteam, ways to contact our current subteam leads, and links to their respective Slack channels.
+=== Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS) ===
+Slack Channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-adcs satellites-adcs]
+Subteam Lead: Grant Regen
+[[Satellite GNC#Heading|'''Guidance, Navigation, and Control (Aerospace Engineering/CS/EE/ME)''']] — Learn how to guide our satellite where practical physics and coding meet, control pointing of the system by interacting with the Earth's magnetic field, and unspin the satellite after a rocket shoots it out.
+*'''[[Sequoia GNC | Begin Here]]'''
+=== Avionics ===
+Slack channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-avionics satellites-avionics]
+Subteam Lead: Hunter Liu
+[[Satellite Avionics#Heading|'''Avionics (Electrical Engineering)''']] — Learn electrical engineering in space, make your own camera, radio, solar panels, and design your own custom circuit boards (we'll even teach you how to make rave lighting for your room).
+*'''[[Avionics Onboarding 2020 | Begin Here]]'''
+=== Payload ===
+Slack channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-payload satellites-payload]
+Subteam Lead: Niklas Vainio
+=== Software ===
+Slack channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-software satellites-software]
+Subteam Lead: Kien Deshpande
 *[[Satellite Software#Heading|'''Software (Computer Science)''']] — Learn to program our onboard flight computer and science computer, write machine learning models, and design a full software architecture.
 **'''[[Satellite Software | Begin Here]]'''
-*[[Satellite Avionics#Heading|'''Avionics (Electrical Engineering)''']] — Learn electrical engineering in space, make your own camera, radio, solar panels, and design your own custom circuit boards (we'll even teach you how to make rave lighting for your room).
+=== Structures ===
-**'''[[Avionics Onboarding 2020 | Begin Here]]'''
+Slack channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-structures satellites-structures]
+Subteam Leads: Jacob Mukobi, Siolé Mayeski, and Jeremy Merritt
+[[Satellite Structures#Heading|'''Structures (Mechanical Engineering)''']] — Learn to create the structure of our satellite via aluminum laser-cutting, 3D printing, and computer-aided design (CAD)
+*'''[[Satellite Structures Onboarding | Begin Here]]'''
-*[[Satellite GNC#Heading|'''Guidance, Navigation, and Control (Aerospace Engineering/CS/EE/ME)''']] — Learn how to guide our satellite where practical physics and coding meet, control pointing of the system by interacting with the Earth's magnetic field, and unspin the satellite after a rocket shoots it out.
+=== Systems Engineering ===
-**'''[[Sequoia GNC | Begin Here]]'''
+Slack channel: [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/messages/satellites-systems satellites-systems]
+Subteam Lead: kinda everyone!
 *[[Satellite Systems Engineering#Heading|'''Satellite Systems Engineering''']] — Talk with top space representatives in both government and industry, attend local satellite and space conferences, and learn how to launch a satellite safely and legally 😉. Also, check out the [[Policy]] team.
-=== Calendar ===
+== Past Missions ==
+=== ''Sapling Giganteum'': 2022–2023 ===
+Also referred to as Sapling-2, this was the second of the ''Sapling'' series of 1U CubeSats (better descriptions to come + photos!)
-<div style="text-align: center;">[https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=[email protected]&ctz=America/Los_Angeles '''SSI Updated General Event Calendar''']</div>
+=== ''Sapling'' ''Sempervirens'': 2020–2023 ===
+Also referred to as Sapling-1, this was the first of the ''Sapling'' 1U cubesats (better descriptions to come + photos!)
-== Sequoia 2019-Present 🌲 ==
+=== Sequoia: 2019–2020 ===
-Sequoia is an open-source, 3U CubeSat that will demonstrate on-board image classification and processing with updateable machine learning models. The goal of the project is to obtain a high volume of scientifically important imagery for ecological and climatology research. Researchers many times have no need of images saturated with clouds or uninteresting areas—so why not filter them out with convolutional neural networks? We will retrain Sequoia’s deep learning with images taken by the satellite, uplinking improvements. The Stanford Student Space Initiative is developing deep learning models for forest fire risk assessment and detection and a number of other applications. The mission architecture is user definable with the operator specifying desirable image locations or types and resolutions, and the satellite maximizing delivery of fully open-source images.
+Sequoia was a planned 3U CubeSat that would demonstrate on-board image classification and processing with updateable machine learning models. The goal of the project was to obtain a high volume of scientifically important imagery for ecological and climatology research. Researchers many times have no need of images saturated with clouds or uninteresting areas—so why not filter them out with convolutional neural networks? We will retrain Sequoia’s deep learning with images taken by the satellite, uplinking improvements. SSI worked on developing deep learning models for forest fire risk assessment and detection and a number of other applications. The mission architecture is user definable with the operator specifying desirable image locations or types and resolutions, and the satellite maximizing delivery of fully open-source images.
-Here's our [https://github.com/stanford-ssi/Sequoia in-progress github] (not in any finalized state) for the project. A full public project rundown of all systems, code, and designs will be released before we launch.
+Project materials can be found in the [https://github.com/stanford-ssi/Sequoia Sequoia GitHub].
-== Past Projects ==
+=== POINTR: [year]–[year] ===
-The principal work of Stanford Satellite Team has been the development of various [[Optical Communications]] technologies. [[POINTR]], a 1U segment of a 3U cubesat launched in 2018 but never conected with ground control due to improper oribit insertion from the launch provider.
+The Satellites Team developed various [[Optical Communications]] technologies, culminating in the launch of [[POINTR]]. This was a 1U segment of a 3U CubeSat launched in 2018, but it unfortunately never connected with ground control due to improper orbital insertion from the launch provider.
-In addition, members have worked in Stanford faculty labs to build:
+=== Additional Projects ===
+In addition to projects taken on by the team as a whole, satellites members have worked in Stanford faculty labs to build:
-*[https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/snaps.htm SNAPS], the Stanford NAno Picture Satellite, a 1/4U imaging cubesat deployed from the ISS in 2016
+*[https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/snaps.htm SNAPS], the Stanford NAno Picture Satellite, a 1/4U imaging CubeSat deployed from the ISS in 2016
-*[https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/qbus-3.htm QB50 Discovery], Stanford's submission to an international 50-member cubesat constellation
+*[https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/qbus-3.htm QB50 Discovery], Stanford's submission to an international 50-member CubeSat constellation
 *Morgana, a CubeSat designed to study high energy particles in the upper atmosphere. (Cancelled)
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