power system management, structural design, and systems engineering. Furthermore, students are learning a wide range of skills necessary to develop a new commercial enterprise, including elements of customer discovery, customer development, marketing, contract management, and systems integration. Graduates who have been involved in this project are pursuing careers ranging from the aerospace industry to a doctoral program in Aerospace Engineering. As this has developed, we have engaged students from across the College of Integrated Science and Engineering, currently including Integrated Science and Technology, Intelligence Analysis, and Engineering. In furthering our efforts, it is expected that students from across the JMU community, including those from the Business and Industrial Design programs, will likely be involved. Outside of these, however, it is hoped that our development program will engage students and faculty from the broader spectrum of JMU academic programs as we identify and define best uses for the technology moving forward. Ultimately, JMU DukeSAT (and JMU MeshSAT) systems will be offered to the full range of planned LEO missions, including satellite systems focused on enhancing our understanding of the natural world, and space-based systems for studying the impact of geo-political events that provide real- time data that are not readily available through large government and private satellite data systems. As a JMU-centered venture, JMU DukeSAT will provide a way for students across JMU to engage in the growing commercial space industry and provide an exciting opportunity for us to bring an element of this industry to the Shenandoah Valley and the Virginia community that we serve as an institution.
Supplemental Materials
• The JMU DukeSAT webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/jmudukesat/home • Dukes in Space from JMU homepage: https://www.jmu.edu/news/madison- trust/2021/11-9-dukesat-test-launch.shtml • JMU in SPACE Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/jamesmadisonuniversity/posts/jmu-in-space-the-jmu- dukesat-team-took-its-first-steps-towards-space-this-month-/10159668558305768/ • Video from the HiSAT 2 high-altitude flight experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3n_146AC4
Madison Trust 2026 Project Proposal
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