I was in charge of getting all of the hardware and software ready for flight.” Power has also played a key role working with the principal investigator to get the instrument payload calibrated and tested for flight. It's been my job to be CAPSat's integration lead. “I was brought onto the CAPSat team almost two years ago. “I got involved with the Laboratory for Advanced Space Systems at Illinois as a freshman, working on communications as well as integration and testing,” Eason said. The signatures of Logan Power and Rick Eason can be seen directly underneath the UIUC Block I sketch. The Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer, which CAPSat was loaded into, has flown several missions in the past so the access panel has markings and signatures from the 2019 CubeSat SOCRATES, as well as the satellite that sits behind CAPSat for this launch, SPACE HAUC. For Eason, who plans to attend graduate school in aerospace engineering at UIUC after graduating, the delivery marked an important step in a project he’s been working on since he first came to Illinois. From there, it will be loaded onto the end of a robotic arm and deployed from its transport canister in October.īoth Eason and Power are electrical engineering undergraduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Cool Annealing Payload Satellite, or CAPSat, will launch in August on a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station. In early July, undergraduate students Rick Eason and Logan Power were privileged to hand-deliver a CubeSat satellite to NASA’s launch service provider, Nanoracks, in Houston, where they participated in its installation in the orbital deployer mechanism.

Under Undergrads Rick Eason, left, and Logan Power, right, celebrate CAPSat’s successful installation in Nanorack’s deployer. Controls, Dynamical Systems and Estimation.Aerospace Systems Design and Simulation.Undergraduate Materials, Structures, and Controls Instructional Laboratories.Laser and Optical Diagnostics Laboratory.Laboratory for Advanced Space Systems at Illinois (LASSI).Computational Design Innovation Laboratory.Combustion, Flow, and Plasma Interaction Laboratory.Online MS/MEng in Aerospace Engineering.

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