Senior Design Projects 2016-2017
Course Coordinator: Dr. James Nabity
Course Assistant: Kaley Pinover
Professional Advisory Board (PAB): James Nabity, Jelliffe Jackson, Robert Marshall, Brian Argrow, Jay McMahon, Josh Stamps, Matt Rhode, Bobby Hodgkinson, Trudy Schwartz
10 Teams:
- Air Force Research Laboratory/CU: SABRE Nozzle (Supersonic Air-Breathing Redesigned Engine Nozzle)
- Objective: Additively manufactured subsonic-supersonic nozzle for small gas turbine engine
- Ball Aerospace: SPECTROM (Scientific Platform for the Exact Control of Thermally Regulated Optical Equipment)
- Objective: Thermal expansion active control system for alignment adjustment of spacecraft optical instrumentation
- CU AES (Thayer and Argrow): MACULA (Mapping Architecture Concept for Universal Landing Automation)
- Objective: Proof-of-concept LIDAR scanning system for spacecraft descent and landing phases
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): CHIMERA (CHIld drone deployment MEchanism and Retrieval Apparatus)
- Objective: Autonomous deployment, landing, securing system and communications relay for unmanned aerial vehicle
- Lockheed Martin: OSPRE (Optical Sensor Package for Relative Exploration)
- Objective: Optical testbed for spacecraft relative navigation proof-of-concept
- Raytheon: REPTAR (REcoverable ProTection After Reentry)
- Objective: Small satellite re-entry, landing, and recovery system
- Special Aerospace Services (SAS): PEAPOD (Pneumatically Energized Auto-throttled Pump Operated for a Developmental Upper stage)
- Objective: Pneumatically powered pump system for rocket upper stage
- Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems: CASCADE (Cubesat Active Systematic Capture DEvice)
- Objective: Test demonstration unit for autonomous on-orbit small satellite capture
- Surrey Satellite Technology US: Baffling Buffs
- Objective: Lightweight deployable star tracker baffle
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): RADIANCE (Research at high Altitude on Distributed Irradiance Aboard an iNexpensive Cubesat Experiment)
- Objective: High altitude balloon payload for solar irradiance measurement