Fueled by passion for the final frontier, UW Orbital is building a satellite members hope will someday blast off into space.
The year-old student team is working on CubeSat, a fully functioning satellite, for research in earth-centred orbit, called Eternium-III, and to compete in 2023’s Canadian Satellite Design Challenge.
The approximately 70 members, who are mainly engineering students, are developing a single three-unit Cubesat, which is about the size of three Rubik's Cubes stacked together or a milk container.
Roman Semin, UW Orbital’s operation lead, says he’s excited about the research the team is undertaking.
“I’m a very curious person who is interested in exploration and taking a different road,” explains the third-year systems design engineering student.
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