DAEDALUS Student Lead: Alexis Rohrke Student Team Members: Mansour Almansoori, Camden Balch, Amanda Ditton, Hunter Higginson, Katie Kinney, Brady Lawrence, Eli Martin, Alexis Rohrke Faculty: Dr. Mark Benton and Dr. Richard Mangum The ability to determine and control attitude is imperative for spacecraft operations to ensure mission success. An attitude determination and control (ADC) system allows for a satellite to be stabilized, pointed, and rotated into a desired orientation regardless of external or internal disturbance torques acting upon the satellite. Daedalus aims to design and build a low-cost attitude determination and control system for CubeSat spacecraft as an alternative to commercially available systems that exceed student teams’ and small companies’ budgets. The system will focus on achieving 2-3 axis control through a combination of reaction wheels and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). By narrowing the scope down to control and determination, Daedalus seeks to demonstrate that precise spacecraft control can be achieved with the allotted budget and available resources at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. This project will involve designing, prototyping, and testing our attitude determination and control system by developing a reaction wheel and testbed to verify system performance under simulated space conditions, including vacuum pressure and free rotation testing. FORGE Student Lead: Jessica Martineau Student Team Members: Luka Arozqueta, Ethan Cerniglia, Garrett Greve, Jacob Hart, Jessica Martineau, Nicholia Moody, Ryan Raglin Faculty: Dr. Siwei Fan and Dr. Matthew Haslam FORGE is a lunar based mission set to melt lunar regolith in order to provide refined materials and oxygen in the support of establishing lunar infrastructure. FORGE will combine the processes of an induction furnace, and the recent NASA project, Molten Regolith Electrolysis (MRE), to accomplish this. The induction furnace will melt the regolith up to the melting temperature of titania, during this process oxygen trapped within the regolith is extracted and dispersed. FORGE will detect the current temperature of the regolith within the crucible by sonic vibrations and sensing the output. The output should be “louder” when the material is solid, whereas the output should be “muffled” when the regolith is molten. Once the set temperature has been met, the furnace will wait until all the titania has melted sufficiently, in which case FORGE will begin to cool down until the regolith inside the crucible has completely cooled. The refined materials inside are now ready for use.
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