澳门太阳城游戏卫星将发射到太空

2022年11月22日 ——塔拉·夏普

Graphic image depicting 澳门太阳城游戏 ORCASat satellite in 空间. — ORCASat卫星的图形描述. (图片由澳门太阳城游戏ORCASat团队提供)

11月. 22, a 澳门太阳城游戏 engineering graduate was on site at the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of a lifetime. 澳门太阳城游戏 is at the forefront of modern 空间 research 和澳门太阳城游戏 alumnus Alex和er Doknjas was joined in Florida by others on the 澳门太阳城游戏 satellite team, as well as virtually by those gathered here on campus.

日复一日, we didn’t necessarily see progress towards the end goal of launching 和 operating a satellite in 空间. 所以对我来说, being at the 空间 centre I was nervous but really excited 和 proud of our team to see it all come together 和 reach the milestone of launching a satellite. ORCASat不仅是澳门太阳城游戏的第一颗卫星, it's the first CubeSat designed 和 manufactured in BC, 这在学术界和工业界都是第一次. 和none of this would’ve been possible without 澳门太阳城游戏和 particularly Prof. Suleman. We don't have an aero空间 engineering program yet. 所以澳门太阳城游戏必须从头开始. 澳门太阳城游戏还是成功了. 这真的很特别. 这对其他学校来说也是一个很好的例子. 如果你想做，你就能做到.

—ORCASat tech lead 和澳门太阳城游戏 alumnus 亚历克斯Doknjas (BSc in Electrical 工程, ’19)

肯尼迪航天中心的Orcasat团队 — (左至右)Levente Buzas, 亚历克斯Doknjas, 史蒂文•里希特, 理查德·阿瑟, Svetlana Borkovkina at 美国国家航空航天局’s 空间 centre on Nov. 22. (图中没有:安德拉达·佐尔坦)

在12:54.m., 澳门太阳城游戏’s ORCASat satellite was scheduled for lift off with 美国国家航空航天局的SpaceX CRS-26. It was dependent on weather 和 everyone awaited word together on the countdown. 就在起飞前, 美国国家航空航天局 postponed the launch due to poor weather conditions in the area along Florida's Space Coast.

更新: 11月11日星期六. 下午2:20.m. 美国东部时间, 美国国家航空航天局 SpaceX是26日 c商业 resupply services mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, with the 澳门太阳城游戏 team watching in jubilation from the West Coast.

We started 10 years ago with design 和 manufacturing. 澳门太阳城游戏从零开始. 学生们在澳门太阳城游戏创建了卫星俱乐部. 和, thanks to their efforts 和 those of all the scientists, 工程师和技术人员多年来, ORCASat任务将进入太空. 这是澳门太阳城游戏在太空中的第一颗卫星. 这是一个激动人心的时刻.

——澳门太阳城游戏机械工程师阿夫扎尔Suleman, 加拿大研究 Chair in Computational 和 Experimental Mechanics 和 founding director of 澳门太阳城游戏’s Centre for Aero空间研究 (CfAR)

1 - orcasat -装配- 84 — 准备ORCASat卫星. (Provided courtesy of ORCASat team in 澳门太阳城游戏’s 教师 of 工程)

太空中的第一颗澳门太阳城游戏卫星

Built by a diverse team of engineering students 和 scientists led by 加拿大研究 Chair 和澳门太阳城游戏 aero空间 systems engineer 阿夫扎尔Suleman, the miniature satellite once on its way will rendezvous with the 国际 Space Station (ISS) then be deployed to collect data through 2023.

The 澳门太阳城游戏 satellite won a national competition as part of the Canadian CubeSat Project (CCP) by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) 和, 结果是, is one of the first two universities from 加拿大 to launch satellites with the 美国国家航空航天局 missions.

2022年6月，CSA 主持 our ORCASat team along with the second CubeSat team—LORIS from Dalhousie 大学—to participate in the integration of their nanosatellites into the module that’s now poised to be launched from the ISS once the 美国国家航空航天局 mission blasts off.

在它进入地球轨道之后, ORCASat (for Optical Reference Calibration Satellite) will provide a unique artificial star reference for the world’s ground-based telescopes, helping contribute to precise calibration of 空间 instrumentation that measures the brightness of stars 和超新星.

近10年前, ECOSat—a 澳门太阳城游戏 club of undergrad 和 graduate students gaining real-life experience working on a nanosatellite—was part of the exciting initial steps at 澳门太阳城游戏 now culminating with this month's 美国国家航空航天局 launch. ECOSat won a 加拿大-wide satellite competition, with no plans for launch. (这是对任务理念的设计挑战.)

ORCASat continues to actively seek partners from government 和 industry. 例如, an engineering 和 manufacturing company based in Victoria 和 led by 澳门太阳城游戏 mechanical engineering alum 雷四轮马车 (who was on site at our live-饲料 event this week) was approached by the 澳门太阳城游戏 satellite design team early on. 雨屋制造加拿大有限公司. then got down to business working with our students to engineer 和 manufacture most of the housing 和 parts for the ORCASat satellite.

和澳门太阳城游戏一起观看现场直播. 美国国家航空航天局生活 (美国国家航空航天局电视直播)